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Well, it’s been sitting there in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1850, which I have put off reading for way too long.
Perhaps it has been explained elsewhere, too, but this is the first time I’ve run across it.
The temptation of the serpent was that if they ate of the forbidden fruit that they would become “like gods” (gen 3:5) AND HERE the CCC explains that this means, that they would be “like gods” deciding what is right and wrong.
Yes, we’ve heard that their sin was pride or rebellion against God, good answers, but the CCC “nails” the specifics better than I’ve heard or read before.
IOW, plain old, old-fashioned relativism, right there in GE (garden of eden).
Perhaps it has been explained elsewhere, too, but this is the first time I’ve run across it.
The temptation of the serpent was that if they ate of the forbidden fruit that they would become “like gods” (gen 3:5) AND HERE the CCC explains that this means, that they would be “like gods” deciding what is right and wrong.
Yes, we’ve heard that their sin was pride or rebellion against God, good answers, but the CCC “nails” the specifics better than I’ve heard or read before.
IOW, plain old, old-fashioned relativism, right there in GE (garden of eden).