Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Timm) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Adam and Eve have become as Gods? Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 91 08:21:38 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 16 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu The lie that Satan told was "ye shall not surely die". But in a sense Adam and Eve did acquire a knowledge of good and evil from the experience. I cannot understand, however, why some people think the fall was necessary. Why is a case where the Son of God is forced to die superior to the case where man has not fallen and no redeemer is necessary? Nothing has convinced me that God ever intended us to know evil. I would have been happy with just knowing good. Perhaps we are as gods because we know good from evil, but a good part of many religions is trying to become a god when in fact you ought not to be trying to do that. The temptation to be like God was an offer of power, and only after yielding did Adam and Eve see the responsibility which comes along with it. Steve Timm