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Genesis 3:5
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof (Genesis 2:17, tree of knowledge) then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Well, that verse claims that Adam and Eve knew more after the Fall from Grace, not that they (and/or other people) were less intelligent. Are you ready to confess that you just made that BS up, or are you gonna keep looking for the nonexistent verse that says people are less intelligent now than Adam and Eve were before the Fall?

67 posted on 08/27/2005 3:41:18 PM PDT by AntiGuv ("Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick)

"Genesis 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof (Genesis 2:17, tree of knowledge) then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."

Ummm ... do you REALLY want to be quoting the serpent (and, by extension its puppet-master) in a discussion of truth?

I realize it was probably a moment of carelessness. I would suggest that Genesis 3:22 is better if only because the subject of quotation is better.

As for this "good and evil" thing: what the serpent appears to have promised, based on Eve's appraisal of the promise, was wisdom; what God appears to be referring to is morality, of knowing OF good and evil and the necessity to make a choice between the two.