Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days 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-square102fedilinkarrow-up1383arrow-down19
arrow-up1374arrow-down1external-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 · 23 days agomessage-square102fedilink
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·23 days agoIt doesn’t matter. They were being punished for something they didn’t know not to do.
minus-squareCrazyslinkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·23 days agoIgnorance of the law is no excuse or whatever 🙄
minus-squareddh@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days 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-up4·22 days 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.