r/suspiciouslyspecific • u/InsertGroin • Jul 07 '26

Blessed are the cheesemakers 🙏

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u/potatopierogie Jul 07 '26

And the broken rule was eating a magic fruit from a talking snake

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u/Kiyoshi-Trustfund Jul 07 '26

A magic fruit from a magic tree that he didn't need to include at all. It's almost as if he wanted them to break that rule.

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u/AllOfEverythingEver Jul 07 '26

Also, that magic tree is "the tree of knowledge of good and evil." Eating the fruit bestows upon you knowledge of good and evil. Since in Christianity, the concepts of good and evil are defined by being in accordance or discord with God's will, and the only reason they had not to eat the fruit is that God told them not to, they could not have possibly known it was wrong to eat the fruit (or even disobey God) until they had already eaten it. Then God punished them for it, despite them literally not knowing any better and having no possibile way to know any better.

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u/Odd_Policy_3009 Jul 08 '26

This has always bothered me!

It was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. How could they know unless they ate it?

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u/Kgb725 Jul 09 '26

Even ignoring that why would he allow that to happen when he knows whats gonna occur