Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ph600fev@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Robert O'Barr) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Adam and Eve have become as Gods? Message-ID: Date: 9 Apr 91 07:55:19 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu ....hold it a moment. I followed you all the way up until the last line. To me, God says Adam can have a life free from death (and mortal inperfections such as sickness, old age, etc.) or he can have knowledge of good and evil. Where does the scriptures mention sexual sin as the transgression of Adam and Eve in the garden? How could there be a sexual sin when Adam had been given Eve by the Lord (i.e. they were married) It is my opinion that yes, the knowledge gained by Adam and Eve did help them. Because of partaking of the fruit they would die, but a Redeemer had already been provided from before the foundation of the earth. The knowledge they gained of good and evil would allow them to later learn of the Gospel (through the ministering of angels) and then repent so that they could have eternal life with the Father. I'm glad there was a fall. THe fact that Jesus Christ was called to be a "sacrificial lamb" (an offering for sin) from before the foundation of the world tells us that the fall of Adam and Eve was not a "suprise" to God but rather part of his plan for the human race. Robert [I didn't mean to say that the first sin was sexual, but rather that derangement of relations between the sexes was a consequence of it. --clh]