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How did Adam and Eve know good from evil?

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04-03-2010 9:16 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by hotjer
04-02-2010 10:18 PM

The Adam and Eve story is simply a fable, a "Just So" story intended to give a pseudo-explanation of why humans are different from other animals.
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As with all fables, it does not have to be perfectly consistent.
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04-03-2010 8:21 PM 		Reply to: Message 12 by Peg
04-03-2010 7:32 PM

Peg writes:
Then we have nwr who says "The Adam and Eve story is simply a fable"
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Yet if that were true, why are they spoken of as historical people by Jesus Christ?
Why do we often speak of Sherlock Holmes as if he were a historical person?
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Peg writes:
And why is the perfect life of Jesus compared to the perfect life of Adam?
Why do we compare the work of real detectives with that of Sherlock Holmes? Why do we compare reasoning of real people with the logic of Sherlock Holmes?
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Surely, the answer is that Sherlock Holmes is a well known cultural icon. And, likewise, Adam and Eve would have been well known cultural icons for the people that Jesus spoke with.
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Peg writes:
If Adam wasnt a real person, then to compare a real man to him would not make sense. It only makes sense if Adam was a real person.
If you try the paraphrase by replacing "Adam" with "Sherlock Holmes", you will see that your argument is bogus.
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