The true First Sin...?

[Count_Golgotha]

In the book of Genesis, after Adam and Eve partook of the Fruit of Knowledge, they both realized they were naked and felt the need to cover up. Here’s the thing though: eating of the Fruit marked the first sin. But if indeed being naked was wrong, wouldn’t that mean that Adam and Eve had been doing something wrong the whole time, even before eating the Fruit? Of course the main argument against this would be to declare that being naked is not wrong. But the fact that they felt the need to correct their nakedness after obtaining the ability to distinguish good from evil implies that being naked is a bad thing, and that eating the Fruit made them realize that it was wrong. For if being naked wasn’t wrong, they would never have felt the need to cover themselves.

So at this point, I can only see two possible conclusions: Either 1) Adam and Eve had been sinning even before they ate the Fruit, or 2) They made a moral misjudgment and mistakenly believed that being naked was wrong.

 

[VociMike]

I think the covering their nakedness stuff reveals that their nature (including their sexual nature) had become disordered.

 

[Haliit]

The covering of their nakedness is not a commentary on the fact that the nakedness itself was sinful. What it reveals is that after the Fall, Adam and Eve needed to cover themselves as a protection against the shame of being viewed as an object of sexual desire and gratification.

Being naked is not a bad thing. It is not shameful for you to be naked when you shower.

Before the Fall, lust had not entered into the hearts of man. After, we need to cover ourselves as a protection against this disordered desire of others. So, we are not covering ourselves as a way to hide our sin of nakedness, we cover ourselves to defend our good and holy body against the sins of others.

 

[MarcoPolo]

Also, as a technicality, the first sin is traditionally thought to be pride by the angel Lucifer long before man. The story of the Fall is man’s first sin.

 

[choosechrist]

In the book of Genesis, after Adam and Eve partook of the Fruit of Knowledge, they both realized they were naked and felt the need to cover up. Here’s the thing though: eating of the Fruit marked the first sin. But if indeed being naked was wrong, wouldn’t that mean that Adam and Eve had been doing something wrong the whole time, even before eating the Fruit? Of course the main argument against this would be to declare that being naked is not wrong. But the fact that they felt the need to correct their nakedness after obtaining the ability to distinguish good from evil implies that being naked is a bad thing, and that eating the Fruit made them realize that it was wrong. For if being naked wasn’t wrong, they would never have felt the need to cover themselves.

So at this point, I can only see two possible conclusions: Either 1) Adam and Eve had been sinning even before they ate the Fruit, or 2) They made a moral misjudgment and mistakenly believed that being naked was wrong.

The True first sin was disobedience, please don’t read into the Bible something other than what was intended.

God when He created the angels tested their fidelity, therefore, the good angels decided to stay with God and the bad angels became demons. We don’t know what the test was, but if they made a choice then there was as the Church teaches us a test of even the angels.

When God created humans, as the Church and the Bible tells us, He gave them everything, but wanting to test their fidelity and trust in Him, He laid only one condition, that of not eating of the Tree of Knowledge. Their disobedience, led by a desire to be like God, is what led to the Fall. Before the Fall, humans had preternatural gifts, this is what the Church teaches, and we have to listen to the Church, set up by Jesus, because she cannot teach error and cannot teach us error. Therefore, if we understand it correctly, these preternatural gifts of immortality, impassibility, freedom from concupiscence, made human being beautiful creatures. Their disobedience to follow God’s one command, caused a disorder in creation.

Also, you can’t say that Adam and Eve were sinning before the Fall, because they had no knowledge of right and wrong. You can’t blame anyone for a fault if they don’t know it is a fault. Plus, since Adam and Eve had the preternatural gifts they were incapable of sin. Sin did not originate from their minds, rather they were tempted, therefore, there is no way they could have sinned before the Fall.

 

[mlchance]

So at this point, I can only see two possible conclusions: Either 1) Adam and Eve had been sinning even before they ate the Fruit, or 2) They made a moral misjudgment and mistakenly believed that being naked was wrong.

The ever-popular error of limiting reality to what “I can only see” rears its head again!

– Mark L. Chance.

 

[fhansen]

In the book of Genesis, after Adam and Eve partook of the Fruit of Knowledge, they both realized they were naked and felt the need to cover up. Here’s the thing though: eating of the Fruit marked the first sin. But if indeed being naked was wrong, wouldn’t that mean that Adam and Eve had been doing something wrong the whole time, even before eating the Fruit? Of course the main argument against this would be to declare that being naked is not wrong. But the fact that they felt the need to correct their nakedness after obtaining the ability to distinguish good from evil implies that being naked is a bad thing, and that eating the Fruit made them realize that it was wrong. For if being naked wasn’t wrong, they would never have felt the need to cover themselves.

So at this point, I can only see two possible conclusions: Either 1) Adam and Eve had been sinning even before they ate the Fruit, or 2) They made a moral misjudgment and mistakenly believed that being naked was wrong.

The first sin was that they took it upon themselves to determine what was good and what was evil, something that should only be within Gods’ province. God had made everything good, including their bodies. They determined that their bodies were shameful after they’d “won” this new authority.