Posted: Aug 31, 2013 12:39 am
monkeyboy wrote:Back to free will and the morlity of God if I may.
I have another problem with the original sin/Adam and Eve story, whether it is meant to be literal or allegorical I don't care. I certainly don't see it as morally acceptible.
Funnily enough if we read about why Adam and Eve got thrown out the GoE, is because of two things
- 1) They disobeyed god in tasting the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge
2) And they learned to think in terms of good and evil.
Just perhaps the original intent of the passage was for people not to think in these terms ... and to get back into the GoE (metaphorically speaking) we should stop thinking in terms of good and evil. This interpretation has a deep irony if we compare this to how people interpret original sin today.