Punished UMN wrote:Esheaun Stroakuss wrote:
Why was that a bad thing? I interpreted the tempting of Eve to be the promise of knowledge and enlightenment. God's reaction seemed pretty drastic, i.e. original sin.
He did promise knowledge, but some knowledge is bad. Yeah, some of the knowledge Satan gave us benefitted us in some niche ways, but it also introduced us to war, murder, rape, theft, etc, and doomed all humanity, not even just all humanity, but all life, and not even just all life, but the cosmos themselves, to destruction. Now, Christ's coming means that the world and its inhabitants will be redeemed, but think about the enormity of such a crime. Yeah, Satan didn't kill anyone, but he was the one who let us know killing each other, or indeed harming each other in any way was something we even could do.
Theoretically, it was still up to us to make those choices. There may have been things Satan introduced to us that we never acted upon.
Like they say, who shot the Kennedys? It was you and me. The idea of Satan removes agency and responsibility from mankind's capacity for violence and cruelty.