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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...

presumes neither the direct, divine creation of evil nor the presence of evil in any of the primordial elements of creation.40 Instead, what makes a human person good or evil was made available by God: “The LORD God caused to grow from the ground every tree … and the tree of knowing good and evil” (2:9, author’s translation). The deity knows both good and evil (as assumed by 3:5), although the deity is also to be considered good. Knowledge of both good and evil exists at the time of human creation,
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