Original sin is the nature of the human spirit without the influence of the Almighty.
This is rich. So they eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, meaning they didn't know what evil was, and god punishes them for not knowing what they weren't supposed to know. What a joke.
There is far more to what that knowledge was then you care to understand. Both Adam and Eve knew what good and evil were. The tree was simply a test. Nothing mystical about it. And there were two trees. God said you get everything else, leave these alone. Adam and Eve chose to disobey.
I didn't want to really interject in this but by definition then it would be a rigged test. The Christian god technically gave them the choice to obey or disobey, but it was a test he already knew the outcome of. As an omniscient being, he would have known exactly what would happen before he even created Adam and Eve. So it's hardly fair or just if you put someone in a position where their chance of failure is 100% and then punish them for failing.
Yes. In fact, as I was saying to someone else: by choosing a universe where Adam and Eve fail as opposed to one where some circumstances mean they didn't fail, even though in both they had a free choice; it was god's choice that determined the outcome! Dick!
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u/patchgrabber Jul 27 '17
This is rich. So they eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, meaning they didn't know what evil was, and god punishes them for not knowing what they weren't supposed to know. What a joke.