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1 | Adam and Eve Perfect or Flawed | 1 Tim 2:11 | srbaegon | 208234 | ||
Hello Immanuelsown, You asked if the knowledge of good and evil was the same as sinning. Of course, the answer is no. Implicit in the concept of wisdom is the ability to know right from wrong/good from evil. For wisdom to be attained, there must be the ability to differentiate between them. God never forbade Adam and Eve the ability to know good and evil. He forbade them to do it on their own terms--by eating the fruit. As for your statement: "The knowledge of Good, and Evil, opens up to mankind, all sorts of sins." That is not a necessary consequent. You assume it was always true because men are now sinners. Steve |
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2 | Adam and Eve Perfect or Flawed | 1 Tim 2:11 | DocTrinsograce | 208236 | ||
Good points, brother Steve. John Calvin, discussing the same sort of issue, saying that much error arises when men "mistakenly confuse two very diverse states of man." He used an apt metaphor when he said it was like seeking "a whole building in a ruin, and a well knit structure in scattered fragments." In Him, Doc |
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