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The Genesis of Good and Evil: The Fall(out) and Original Sin in the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

For centuries, the Garden of Eden story has been a cornerstone for the Christian doctrine of “the Fall” and “original sin.” In recent years, many scholars have disputed this understanding of Genesis 3 because it has no words for sin, transgression, disobedience, or punishment. Instead, it is about how the human condition came about. Yet the picture is not so simple. The Genesis of Good and Evil...

act.… It was in secret that the first human beings began to be evil; and the result was that they slipped into open disobedience.”8 Despite the fact that Genesis 3 names evil only by way of “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” Augustine reasons: “Thus the evil act, the transgression of eating the forbidden fruit, was committed only when those who did it were already evil.”9 The notion that Adam and Eve were already evil when they ate the fruit is not biblical. Augustine refers also to pride
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