I feel it's once again necessary to clear up a few traditional misconceptions about the Adam and Eve business.
First, "eating the fruit" is not a metaphor for having sex. It's not about that at all...no matter what certain Catholic schoolteachers want to say. Incidentally, sex itself is not inherently sinful. It just depends on the context.
Second: it was the "tree of knowledge of good and evil". The fact that it was forbidden does not at all mean that God was forbidding all knowledge and science...no matter what certain Darwinists and Big Bangers want to say. So long as the pair did not eat from this tree, they maintained their innocence and were incapable of committing the conscious cruelties that we see. Paul puts it this way:
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Quote by: Romans 7:11 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet." But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead. Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. |
Basically, once you know the difference between what you're supposed to do and what you're not supposed to do, you become accountable to that law. What Adam and Eve had in the beginning was kinda like political immunity.
Third, and this one is a lot more complicated than the previous two, God does not experience linear time on a fixed vector like we do. Mathematically speaking, He is in a higher dimension that occupies all points in our dimension of time simultaneously, being throughout and above. Like a sphere with a 2D plane through it. God is there right now as Adam and Eve are disobeying Him, He's here right now with us, and He's there right now at the end of things when everything's played out. (Incidentally, that is how the redemption of the cross can be seemingly retroactive) He allows people choice, but He can still take those bad choices and make something good out of it. So basically, and this is really going to bake your noodle later on:
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Quote by: Morpheus What happened, happened and could not have happened any other way. |
