>Reply to article by: Risto Karttunen <tipsu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Date written: Wed, 7 May 2008 03:59:55 -0700 (PDT)
>MsgID:<9dfe52eb-3a46-4f57-84bb-618abc4ca0cd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> 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.
I'm not forgetting the other tree, it is just that the other tree is
completely
irrelevant to Adam's lack of knowledge of good or evil.
>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
But Adam did not know the difference so how could he have known it was not
good
to disobey God?
>- that ability is the original sin -
God had that ability before Adam did, so God is the original sinner.
>and we also know that we must die.
Death was one of choices God gave Adam. God did not have to make death one
of
those choices.
>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.
Then why must animals suffer, as Paul says in Roman 8:22, ie -- For we
know that
the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now"?
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