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> Garden of Eden? At no point is that good versus evil, is it? It's about eating the forbidden fruit which would give them knowledge of good and evil, similar
by goatlover 9y ago
> Garden of Eden? At no point is that good versus evil, is it?
It's about eating the forbidden fruit which would give them knowledge of good and evil, similar to Pandora's box. Why the snake was in the garden and allowed to tempt them is not specified in the story.
- taeric 9y agoThe knowledge of good and evil is a far cry from the confrontation between good and evil.
- humanrebar 9y agoThe "Pandora's Box" was the introduction of the first sin, the first human evil, which had far-reaching consequences that Ian Malcolm would snicker and rant about. The Christian narrative starts with this and climaxes with the crucifixion of God himself. I'm honestly confused how people can think the Bible, as a corpus, doesn't have good vs evil and God vs the devil all through it.
- taeric 9y agoThis doesn't seem to contradict my question. Unleashing evil as something we have to live with is not confronting evil.
- humanrebar 9y agoThe story is evil confronting good. It's a tragedy of evil ruining paradise. The knowledge of good and evil could have been supernaturally imparted, but it could just be describing the experience resulting from doing evil.