[Caroline32357]

A Jewish midrash speculates that Adam ‘had engaged in his natural functions [in other words, intercourse] and then fallen asleep,’ so that he was not present during the serpent’s conversation with Eve and presumably unaware that the fruit given to him by Eve came from the forbidden tree. Since God told ADAM [not Eve] ‘From the Tree of the Knowing of Good and Evil, you are not to eat from it; for on that day that you eat from it, you must die, yes die’, if Eve alone had eaten, she would have knowledge of good and evil [and the realization she was mortal, compelling her to make choices about good and evil], and Adam would have remained happily ignorant and immortal. At a more fundamental level, it can be argued that it is the knowledge of mortality itself that is essential to understanding, in any real sense, the difference between good and evil. Could an omniscent God really have expected humans created in his image to be satisfied with less knowledge than they were capable of obtaining? Were Adam and Eve not justified in engaging in religious disobedience of God’s command? Is not greater knowledge with mortality more valuable than ignorant immortality? Would not most intelligent beings choose what Socrates called an ‘examined life’ with mortality over an unexamined life without end?

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Name : Caroline32357, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Religion : Jewish, Age : 25, City : Arlington, State : TX, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, 

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