Re: Original Sin

I am constricted by a few things in answering. Time (have to be out the door in a moment), have only read your post once due to time, and am also no where near a scholar of these works...

Years ago when repeatedly reading Genesis, went into it with the idea of Original sin as 'knowledge'. Your thesis of duality is interesting. Much to chew on here. To add to it, when I read these passages in the KJV, what kept echoing to me was neither of these, but I kept seeing Original sin as something else within the passages.

She lied. Yes, after the fact she claims being beguiled and all. But to me, it was the lie that was the sin. The knowledge came second.

Anyways, no time to debate this, but I do wonder on these things. We have a great capacity to lie, to veil, to conceal. That's what stuck with me, but again, I am no where near a scholar on this. It is just what resonated with me at the time, and still does, tho the Aramaic translation does differ. And being me, the word 'translation' brings me to a large pause, because the words are just that, translated, hence subject to interpretation and, well, that has been discussed mightily so far. No doubt the Tower of Bable parable was put there for a reason.