Why do you assume the man that could name all the animals was so dumb as to not know what God was talking about.
Read the story. They didn't know right from wrong before they ate of the fruit.
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God imparted man's desires (because they didn't create themselves).
Man acquired those desires when he disobeyed the one command given to him.
I want you to read both statements and then think about that real carefully.
If there was no tree there would be no choice.
Why was there a choice at all? Ah, obviously it serves the purpose of tempting.
The penalty existed before the eating of the fruit as it existed after the eating of the fruit.
Read the story again, ICANT. It very clearly says that the tree was the KNOWLEDGE of Good and Evil, and that as SOON as they ate, their eyes were open, KNOWING right from wrong. That's as plain as day.
That man could choose to eat the fruit or choose not to eat the fruit. Knowing if he ate the fruit he would die.
The Book of Romans says that death entered the world because of their sin. That means God's perfect world didn't include death unless they ate of the fruit. So not only did they have no concept of right and wrong, they also didn't have a concept of death.
What a raw deal, not just for them, but we as well.
God did not cause Satan to enter the serpent and tempt Eve.
The fuck he didn't! Stop making God out to be some bystander. God, the Creator of the universe and ALL that is in it, made Satan, knew he was evil, and allowed him access to the world's two most naive human beings on the planet. That makes God just as complicit as Satan himself.
But regadless of that temptation the man who was commanded to not eat the fruit was not tempted by anyone. The woman gave him the fruit and he chose to eat it. He could have obeyed God instead.
What don't you understand about this? He did not know that disobeying was wrong. Read. the. story. I don't care how many ways you say that he chose to be disobedient. He didn't. God gave him his desires, God planted that tree in their path knowing they'd take the bait, God gave the Serpent unlimited access, etc.
This man was no baby. He had the ability to name all living creatures so he was smarter than a fifth grader or Hyroglyphx.
Naming animals means you understand right from wrong? You do know that intelligence and ignorance do not reflect upon one another, right? I could have the highest IQ ever recorded and still be ignorant about geology or cosmology.
He did just like people today. The man blamed God because God had given him the woman who blamed who blamed the snake because Satan had spoke through him.
God was to blame, and no one else, as far as I am concerned with, based solely on the bible.
The snake is the only one that got a raw deal. He lost his legs and has to crawl on his belly eating dust all his life. And there is no way he could keep Statan from speaking through him.
No, I would say the fact that we all suffer and die as the result of Adam and Eve makes us all get the short end of the stick.
The cause of sin has no bearing on whether sin is inheritable or not.
I don't know if it is inherited or not, but the bible has contradictory answers on whether or not we pay for the
sins of the father. Looking at the A & E story, it would certainly appear that we inherited it since no human has ever abstained from sin. A perfect track record of sin in over a trillion people on the planets existence reasonably leads to the conclusion that God gives us the desire to sin. I mean, we didn't make ourselves.
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The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. -- Ezekiel 18:20
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Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation. -- Exodus 34:7
If you take the infallible bible position, this is a real humdinger!
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from mistaken conviction." — Blaise Pascal