It would’ve been worse to stay in Eden, never having eaten of the Tree of Knowledge. Eve did the right thing.
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Not. Adam and Eve possessed by nature and lost to us abilities including direct experiential knowledge of God, harmony and perfect knowledge of self, perfect knowledge and communication with each other, and perfect scientific knowledge and harmony with nature.
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Uh, can you point me to the part of Genesis where it says all that?
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Genesis 2. Demonstrates what Adam knew very clearly. It is Hebrew poetry so read it as such. Communicates truth ina very efficient way. Adam and Eve knew Good, Eat of tree, gain Evil. Which is to lose Good, evil being ontological zero
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Good is impossible without the contrast of Evil. If one knew one but not the other, it would be meaningless, since there’d be no element of choice & thus no virtue in doing Good, no vice in doing Evil.
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I think we’ve already been there in discussion. Oft repeated mistake. Being does not require nonbeing to be. Cool that God uses this as his name “Yahweh”.
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To believe Evil is nonbeing, mere absence, is merely the naive optimism of mainstream Christianity. Baudrillard: “Evil is at the heart of the created world.”
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Evil as ontological zero requires no more more proof than standing in a dark room and turning on a light.
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