TRN170Y1 Lecture 2: lecture 2

• School: UTSG
• Department: Trinity College Courses
• Course: TRN170Y1
• Professor: Andrew Connolly

Document Summary

The woman saw that the tree was desirable and would make one wise, she desired to be wise, she then influenced her husband to take the fruit because she wanted him to be wise as well. The desire for wisdom was not wrong but the disobedience is, the knowledge gained from eating from the tree was prohibited. The woman saw that the tree was edible, she also saw that it was aesthetically pleasant which made it tempting, this influenced her into eating from the prohibited tree. Temptation is a sin, the aestheti(cid:272) of the fruit results i(cid:374) te(cid:373)ptatio(cid:374), a(cid:374)d it"s e(cid:448)e(cid:374) a (cid:271)igger si(cid:374) (cid:449)he(cid:374) it"s a(cid:272)ted upo(cid:374) the te(cid:373)ptatio(cid:374). Note that there is no mention of the serpent eating from the fruit himself. Ada(cid:373) & e(cid:448)e"s a(cid:449)are(cid:374)ess of (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:374)aked suggests that the fruit is (cid:373)ore (cid:862)eye- ope(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) literally a(cid:374)d (cid:373)etaphori(cid:272)ally, it is (cid:374)ot (cid:449)isdo(cid:373) that they gai(cid:374) (cid:271)ut more of a realistic perception.