That's what the serpent said to Adam and Eve, and I believe it.
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That's what the serpent said to Adam and Eve, and I believe it.
Thoughts before I discuss?
Please quote me if you want a response back.
That's what the serpent said to Adam and Eve, and I believe it.
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I don't accept that myth.That's what the serpent said to Adam and Eve, and I believe it.
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What if it was metaphorical? Then do you have an answer?I don't accept that myth.
That's what the serpent said to Adam and Eve, and I believe it.
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I would believe the serpent was lying and that God knows of no Good or Evil. Good and Evil are a result of the fruit and what separates mankind from God. God knows and see's all and mankind knows and see's differences. Differences between Mankind and God. Differences between man and woman. Differences between man and animals.
I am starting to think that you must have all knowledge to be God, but knowing good and evil is enough to become a judge or Judge or even be judged. That's how I see it now.Adam and Eve ate it so... Did they become like God?
Like God, maybe knowledge of good and evil is only one aspect. So maybe the serpent meant like God only in this respect.
My view, the serpent hid knowledge of what is. Good and evil is a false dichotomy. IOW, what is is truth. To have knowledge of good and evil one has to be unaware of the truth. In the begging Adam and Eve knew the truth. After eating the fruit the truth was hidden from them. Instead of the truth they saw only good and evil.
Man sees reality and decides it is good or evil but the truth escapes us.
In this case I suppose the serpent lied.
To know evil is to experience it. That's what the word "know" means. The knowledge of evil was known by experience. And to know evil is also to know what is good.That's what the serpent said to Adam and Eve, and I believe it.
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I take the story as symbolizing a certain level of mental development in humans. Animals don't have a sense of good/right and evil/wrong. At a certain point in evolution, people's brains developed to the point that they have a moral/ethical sense. This lead to cultures developing rules for what is good in the culture and wrong in the culture. The Maya, for example, had a very different set of rules than we do today.What if it was metaphorical? Then do you have an answer?
Well, maybe then God knew it through His Son.To know evil is to experience it. That's what the word "know" means. The knowledge of evil was known by experience. And to know evil is also to know what is good.
After Adam and Eve experienced evil they knew what they were(evil) and also what God was....good.
I am starting to think that you must have all knowledge to be God, but knowing good and evil is enough to become a judge or Judge or even be judged. That's how I see it now.
I am starting to think that you must have all knowledge to be God, but knowing good and evil is enough to become a judge or Judge or even be judged. That's how I see it now.
With all knowledge, one would be 'Pansophic' or 'Polymath'. God is human imagination.I am starting to think that you must have all knowledge to be God, but knowing good and evil is enough to become a judge or Judge or even be judged. That's how I see it now.
Going with the narrative, El confirms the serpent's story partially. He banishes Adam and Eve from the Garden so that they can't also eat from the Tree of Life and become like the gods. So the serpents story was only half the truth.That's what the serpent said to Adam and Eve, and I believe it.
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That's what the serpent said to Adam and Eve, and I believe it.
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We DO know good from evil, and we are not God. However, we are like God IN THIS RESPECT.That's what the serpent said to Adam and Eve, and I believe it.
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I don't think we know total good from evil.We DO know good from evil, and we are not God. However, we are like God IN THIS RESPECT.
If you are saying that our moral sentience has room for further evolution, I agree.I don't think we know total good from evil.