Re: virus: Original Sin (was: Truth) <---- irony, no?

FallAwake (FallAwake@aol.com)
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 13:35:19 EST


In a message dated 98-03-29 13:03:07 EST, you write:

<< Fall awake seems to assume that the original sin was ignorance (of good
and bad). The opposite of "original sin" might be "original
perfection". Thus, an assumption that Adam and Eve were "ignorant" (no
matter how this is labeled... ignorant, innocent, misled, lied to,
tricked, tempted, etc.) is ALSO an assumption of original sin-- since it
does not follow "original perfection". To use an original sin idea to
refute the argument of original sin is poor logic. The better
assumption-- again-- is to assume there is no good/bad dichotomy to
begin with. >>

"And the Lord God said, `Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know
good
and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of
life,
and eat, and live forever:
"Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the
ground from whence he was taken." --Genesis 3:22-23 (KJV)

indeed once they committed the sin they became more godly, more perfect. ("the
man is become as one of us, to know good and evil") god booted them from the
garden of eden so they wouldnt become immortal, even more godly ("and now,
lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and
live forever:")
so we see here that the original sin is being godly.