The_Sage wrote:
>
> If Adam was born without knowledge of good and evil (and therefore
> had no knowledge of what sin was), then how could Adam be blamed for
doing evil
> when he ate of the forbidden tree?
>
Adam wasn't in fact blamed for that. You are now forgetting the other
tree.
God just got afraid and said to His staff (the seraphims, I guess):
"And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to
know good and evil:
and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of
life, and eat, and live for
ever: Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,
to till the ground from
whence he was taken."
We know the difference between good and evil - that ability is the
original sin -
and we also know that we must die. Knowledge without immortality,
that's the terrible lot
of man. Animals don't know, gods don't die. We are in-between those
two worlds.
--
risto
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