UGC 111 Chapter Reading: Genisis 09.11.15
4 Apr 2016
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Knowledge of good and evil is the understanding of the difference between right and wrong but having to constantly live with the temptation to do evil from within because our reasons for our wants become impure. Sex, purely, is viewed a way to reproduce and expand a family. However, impurely, sex is seen as fulfillment of self-pleasure leading to greed and potential to be misused. The god of the genesis story forbad adam and eve from eating from the tree of. By disobeying god, adam and eve gained knowledge of good and evil from direct experience of giving into temptation. Humans shouldn"t know about good and evil because it mars innocence. Adam and eve were unaware of their nudity because prior to eating from the tree of. Knowledge of good and evil they had the innocence of a child.
