Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!news.cs.indiana.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Shame Message-ID: Date: 21 Apr 91 06:15:10 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jmgreen@pilot.njin.net (Jim Green) writes: +|.................................. My view of this is that the +|serpent was telling a half-truth. He promised not only that they +|would learn something, but that the consequences God threatened would +|not happen, and by implication I think that no harm would come to +|them. First, the consequences did happen -- they died. And second, I think the serpent told the exact truth. The death the serpent talk about, physical death, did not happen. The knowledge of good and evil came and if God had not prevented them from eating of the 'tree of life' they would have become as God. That's the reason for expulsion from the garden. +|the knowledge they gained didn't help them. It caused innocent sexual +|relations to turn into shameful ones. clh. A half baked augustinian. -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu