So here we come to the foundation of our faith: the Bible. I'm extremely excited that we are getting to study the Bible in Honors. Matters of faith almost always come up in this class, but actually getting to study the basis of everything we believe is going to be quite interesting, I think.
So, I have dear Doctor Mashburn for 3 classes this semester. Thats 7 times a week. I THINK that it was in God, Evil and Suffering that we talked about the fall. So what happens, is the fall occurs when Adam and Eve eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. When this happens, they receive, well, the knowledge of good and evil. So before this happened, it seems as if they were ignorant of right and wrong. The question was asked in GES, and I wonder what your opinions are on it. Would it be better to be ignorant and innocent, or is it better to be informed and guilty?
While ignorance is indeed bliss, I would say that it would be better to be informed and guilty, for it is one of the many ways, if not THE way, man is granted the ability to improve and better himself.
ReplyDeleteSort of how when you stole from the cookie jar as a kid and you were fussed at. Well, now you know better, and while it seems insignificant NOW, in the long-run it would help make you a better person because it taught you that "stealing=wrong."
Why does innocence have to always be grouped with ignorance? God DID inform them: Eat and you'll die. Sin and you'll die. Had they listened they would have remained innocent. Isn't it beautiful: A holy and innocent child and their perfect God? Thank you Father for your son, who washes away all of my iniquities, and now I can stand before you innocent again. I don't have to go out and experience certain sins to know that those things "aren't for me" God told me they where shameful.
ReplyDeleteYou were in Honors last year when I addressed something along these lines, but I think it's best to be informed and innocent. There is a confusion in English about the word "innocent," which can mean either "naive" or "not guilty." As Brittany says, those are not necessarily the same thing. I think it is coincidental that the loss of both kinds of innocence often occurs simultaneously. While there is a connection between knowledge and will, the two are not identical. Naivety is a matter of knowledge and can be maintained without the operation of the will, but moral guilt is the result of a movement of the will.
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