It’s allegory and shouldn’t be taken literally. At all. One possible interpretation is that eating the apple symbolises the birth of empathy or understanding of other consciousness, thereby giving humans both the ability to be kind and to be cruel.
Yeah, all sects that believe in biblical literism need to be abandoned. If christianity were ever to be a useful religion it needs to leave room for intreptaion and creativity.
It’s allegory and shouldn’t be taken literally. At all. One possible interpretation is that eating the apple symbolises the birth of empathy or understanding of other consciousness, thereby giving humans both the ability to be kind and to be cruel.
Yeah, all sects that believe in biblical literism need to be abandoned. If christianity were ever to be a useful religion it needs to leave room for intreptaion and creativity.
It is extremely useful. Just not for anyone outside the inner party.
For anyone else, it’s not only useless, it’s a threat.