Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoTIL although the idea that Adam and Eve ate an apple is common, the Book of Genesis never mentions the identity of the forbidden fruit.www.rutgers.eduexternal-linkmessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1384
arrow-up1384external-linkTIL although the idea that Adam and Eve ate an apple is common, the Book of Genesis never mentions the identity of the forbidden fruit.www.rutgers.eduDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square101fedilink
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·4 months agoIt doesn’t matter. They were being punished for something they didn’t know not to do.
minus-squareCrazyslinkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoIgnorance of the law is no excuse or whatever 🙄
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoAdam was told not to, but only afterwards did he know. These early part of Genesis are interesting in the way the world supposedly unfurled.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 months agoYes, I realize he knew he did something wrong after he did the wrong thing. The point was he didn’t know it was wrong before and when he did it. Which makes the god of Genesis supremely fucked up.
It doesn’t matter. They were being punished for something they didn’t know not to do.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse or whatever 🙄
Adam was told not to, but only afterwards did he know. These early part of Genesis are interesting in the way the world supposedly unfurled.
Yes, I realize he knew he did something wrong after he did the wrong thing. The point was he didn’t know it was wrong before and when he did it. Which makes the god of Genesis supremely fucked up.