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Originally Posted by Val_1
If there was no sin before Adam ate the fruit, then eating the fruit could not have been a sin. Anything they did after could have been a sin, but not eating the fruit itself since Adam did not know that to take a bite of the apple would be a sin since there he had no knowledge of sin until after it was eaten. Or am I missing something?
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Originally Posted by Terri Shiavo
Genesis
2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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Concerning the OP, sin existed on earth before Adam. There was the rebelion of heaven by Lucifer where he was cast from heaven to be the prince and the power of the air.
Your friendly agnostic graduate of Trinity HS,
Randy