Re: If You Were at Adam & Eve's Position

In article <CPFaj.37003$D44.22827@trnddc04>, bobcrowley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...


[snip]

I'd have eaten the "forbidden fruit". For a couple of reasons - the
first would be that curiosity would get the better of me. Don't
forget anyone in the original parents' position would necessarily be
naive, not knowing what evil is, and would have no way of knowing the
outcome of their action.

This would be true if, like modern Man, Adam could directly observe only the
accidences of things, reaching teh essences only by philosophical reasoning. But
such a supposition misses the point: the account of Adam and Eve _cannot_ be
corrctly understood and interpreted unless you admit that Adam could directly
contemplate the essences of things. So no, he could not have been 'naive', nor
is it likely that he could have failed to know what evil is.

[snip]


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Subducat se sibi ut haereat Deo
Quidquid boni habet tribuat illi a quo factus est
(Sanctus Aurelius Augustinus, Ser. 96)

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