If Adam and Eve were created without a sin-nature, was eating the fruit a sin?

Question

If not, then why does everyone else have to pay for something that was not a sin?

If it was a sin, then how are we any different than they are? What was the point of the whole tree of knowledge?

If it was bad but not a sin, what's the difference between bad and a sin? Why would they do something bad if they were created in God's image?

PS - There's no God.

Jimfix: This is what's called a "HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION". I'd have to be a moron to be an atheist and believe in sin.

Answer 1

The fact is that we don't know what they did that might be considered sin. The fruit you speak of was from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, so whatever they did they were innocent because they did not know there was a right and wrong. After they ate, their eyes were opened and then they became aware right and wrong.

P.S. There IS a God!! You are lost

Answer 2

Adam and eve had a sinful nature, we all do and that is biblical. and we don't pay for Adam and eve's sin we all pay for our own. These are just conjectures that you are laying out as fact. Difference between bad and sin is minuscule. Let's just say that if you sin you break god's laws. Bad things will eventually happen to you . what goes around comes around. God said let's make man in OUR image not His in particular. And what you LOOK like has nothing to do with whether or not you will do some thing bad. The tree of knowledge was Satan. They were told to not partake of his fruit but they did.
Thereby dragging the original sin from the world that was into the world that is. Let the intelligent understand.

Answer 3

For hypothetical questions I have a hypothetical answer.

If eating the fruit was not a sin then we would not be carrying guilt.
if eating the fruit was a sin, then free will was the reason, the result would be that they ruined our chances at the garden through thier own bad chioces. Crackheads hurt thier kids lives by the chioces they make, each chioce we make affects others weather we want it to or not.

if it was bad but not a sin the differnece between bad and a sin is one is done in total ignorance without intent and the other is done with knowledge and intent to harm.

Free will given means we can make chioces that are not good, we can say hey this sounds great opps wrong chioce, very dumb...plain old stupid.

P.S. since there is no God why debate or antagonize anyone who is happy/oblivious to the truth that we are alone and incapable of living forever and one day we will exisit no more and turn into little dust motes and our lives do not matter in the context of the future, or past? Why mistreat, or play games with those who are ignorant, or easily fooled into religion or belief in god? what point in screaming rage at the social order, if our lives have no depth, power or ultimate meaning?

Answer 4

OK.... even when we were created in God's image, he gave us free will, as he gave it to Adam and Eve, it was a sin because He warn them not to eat that fruit and they did it, they were tempted and there is no sin in being tempted but in proceed. The sin enter to the world by that action, even when God made them they had the option of choosing what they wanted to do.
Plan A didn't result so God had a plan B, (Jesus) 'cause He knew it was going to happened and just in case if you ask what was the point if he knew it was going to happened, well, someone would be reproaching that God doesn't let the man chose between good and evil... and there is the proof that the man chose what he wanted...

Answer 5

It's a story which doesn't make sense.
As eating the apple gave them the knowledge of good and evil, it follows they did not have a concept of good and evil before that.
If they did not have a concept of good and evil, it was not evil (bad) to disobey gods command. So it cannot have been a sin. It's like telling a baby not to cry. They don't have a chance understanding. So should you punish a baby for crying?
Actually Mark Twain came already up with that observation. I don't think he ever got an answer.

Maybe something got lost in translation, but then I guess one shouldn't expect strict logic from any mythological story. To be fair, neither babylonian or egyptian or any other creation stories make much sense, but they still are entertaining and try to transmit some moral values.

Answer 6

God put the tree there to allow Adam and Eve to show obedience to His (one and only, very simple) command. If there was nothing to do "wrong", then what would the point of free will be?

The eating of the fruit was not the sin, the sin took place when Eve questioned God, in her mind, after the serpent spoke with her, trying to coax her into believing his lie.

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Answer 7

Eating an apple, or anything else, is not a sin. Disobeying the direct orders of your superior is a gigantic sin in a world of patriarchal hierarchies. Eve's original sin was only that she disobeyed a MALE. That's the single consistent theme common to all three Abrahamic faiths. All men are superior to all women and the only price men must pay for this advantage is to subordinate themselves to an invisible imaginary masculine deity. All my life I've found it impossible to understand why thinking women would have anything at all to do with patriarchal religions.

Answer 8

The sin was seeking forbidden knowledge - the fruit.
God inform Adam and Eve that they can feed and drink from every plant in Eden save for that tree. Then the serpent arrived and convinced Eve to take the fruit and Adam ate from it. They were failed to obey God's order and for doing so were banished from Eden.
We all possess this Original Sin, b/c we all are decendents of Adam and Eve and b/c they took forbidden knowledge from the Tree, that knowledge is carried on inside of us all.
When Mary accepted the message delivered by the Archangel Gabriel, she in effect righten the wrong done by Eve.
Eve sought forbidden knowledge, where as Mary accepted blind faith.

Answer 9

the act of eating the fruit was a symbolic act of defiance. since then Man has fallen and the consequences followed.

If your dad told you not to take money from the table without his permission and you took it, and got punished, does that mean money is bad to your dad? Nope.

Adam ate from the tree, whether the fruit is good or bad for Man is not the issue, but the defiance act is sin.

God created Man in His image, but Man are not God, they dont have the holiness of God. I could make a car model in the image of a car, but that doesnt mean i could drive the model car.

PS - God is real, just because you disagree it doesnt mean you're correct.

Answer 10

The sin was not eating the fruit, the sin was disobeying God's command to not eat the fruit.