God’s glitch in Eden. A & E had to break God’s second command to accomplish the first

I think Ayn Rand had a well-written discussion of this exact topic:

What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state they consider perfection? Their myth declares that he ate the fruit of the tree of knowledgehe acquired a mind and became a rational being. It was the knowledge of good and evilhe became a moral being. He was sentenced to earn his bread by his laborhe became a productive being. He was sentenced to experience desirehe acquired the capacity of sexual enjoyment. The evils for which they damn him are reason, morality, creativeness, joyall the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man’s fall is designed to explain and condemn, it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt, but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he wasthat robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without lovehe was not man.

—Ayn Rand Lexicon

Go to "Peek" at the bottom right of this post and you can see the coding I used for these two quotes.

Don't try to do anything with the Peek screen. That just shows you how things were done.When you make a post just type the first quote code, paste what you want to quote, then type the second quote code. Like this:

Yes, the bit of code at the end of the line needs a "/" in it, just before the "qs" then it will work fine.