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Originally Posted by Jerok
I think a question would be about differing degrees of free will - why didn't God let us choose to rape/murder right away, why try to hide this knowledge from us?
Turning away from God in any way is equally bad - a mortal sin of murder is the same as the mortal sin of lust, is the same as the mortal sin of disobeying God and eating the fruit. By only giving us the knowledge of even one of these things, he has given us free will.
New thought, I think He might have mercifully limited the possibility of us sinning against him by making it about only one thing.
This is all fine except for a few things.
One they shouldn't have named it the tree of knowledge of good and evil if we already had knowledge of good and evil. It should of been like the enhanced tree of knowledge.
Another is if we only had a limited knowledge of good and evil then im not sure we would be fully human or have the same level of consciousness. It would be more like we were a dog who could obey or disobey but not fully understand the ramification of the acts.
And the last one is your basically saying God only wanted us to have knowledge of one thing when it comes to good and evil. And i think thats kind of a problem. Im not sure where the problem is but it feels like one.
ty for your answers though Mr.Jerok
Last edited by batair; 08-13-2010 at 05:52 PM.