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Because they had no evidence to the contrary, which now we have an abundance of. Most observant Jews today view the creation accounts as allegory, which had been hypothesized even before the science, such as with the great Jewish scholar Maimonides back in the 12th century.
This doesn't;t her your position or hurt my argument. To address your statement here directly and assume A&E had some knowledge, you acknowledge they had no knowledge of good or evil, so how would they know God was good and Satan was evil? They wouldn't. They wouldn't know the difference of who to obey. The tree of knowledge has to be significant in some way, and prohibited for some reason. The story doesn't explain why, but in any event God supposedly wanted A&E to be obedient and did things to ensure they failed.
That was 2000 years ago and modern Jews and most Christians don't assume these stories are literal, and that is due to modern, expert knowledge. Anyone who assumes these stories are literal have adopted an interpretive style from their religious experience. No one can lay out an objective and factual argument for interpreting these stories literally, quite the opposite. Only very conservative Christians interpret Genesis literally, no one else does. There are even religious disinformation businesses like Answers in Genesis and the Discovery Institute that read disinformation about science and use this bad, literalist interpretation of Genesis. To my mind these people are evil, and you are making as poor a decision to trust these people as Adam trusted Satan in the myth. This illustrates how you are likely missing truths, but are too confident and prideful to consider it.
You adopted this interpretation style from somewhere, whether it was family, church, internet activity, etc. Did your parents interpret the Bible literally when you were growing up?
Well now you need to be saved from an irrational and counter-factual interpretation of the bIble. If you can't get facts right what is the chance you got religious doctrine right?
He is a grandpa.
You mean to say that he has reproduced?
Except for the whole part of them not having knowledge of the difference between good and evil. Sounds pretty uninformed to me.
The scriptures do not say they didn’t know the difference between good and evil. A person does not have to be a meth addict or participant in illegal activity to know these are wrong. I believe the scriptures mean that Adam and Eve did not know evil in an EXPERIENTIAL way. They were originally innocent of evil and were created good. This doesn’t mean they didn’t understand right or wrong, especially since they spent time talking to God everyday. They were informed.Except for the whole part of them not having knowledge of the difference between good and evil. Sounds pretty uninformed to me.
My parents did not read the Bible.
You mean to tell me, Jesus, had no evidence to the contrary? Jesus, the only begotten eternal Son of God?
Having not eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, how would they have knowledge of good and evil?
The earth can only tell geologists, archeologists and others a limited amount of information concerning events which occurred so long ago. As well, the interpretation of such information can be highly influenced by the individuals worldview. So, I think God’s revelation concerning ancient history is vital for accuracy.
God told them. That is how. I told my kids the difference between good and evil or right and wrong. They didn’t have to try or experience every wrong thing, to know it was wrong.
If that's true, then this is a rather weird passage, isn't it?
Many Christians don't. But you avoided explaining how you heard about literal interpretations of the Bible versus the more reasoned and modern approach. You don't live alone on an island, do you? You have internet access, so how did you hear about your preferred manner of interpretation?
It can tell us quite a lot. Tell me your version of the Flood and I will tell you how we know that it is wrong. And the sciences take steps to limit personal bias as much as possible. In something as silly as the magic boat story it is no problem limiting personal beliefs.
Just more contempt for science indicated here. When I was in college I picked up a coy of Cell Magazine in a lobby just out of curiosity. Jesus, it was way over my head. This was just a magazine about recent biological discoveries about how cells work. I had no idea that science knew so much, and that was 30 years ago. Those who lack a good general grasp of science tend to be ignorant about how much science can know, and this tends to be a basic tendency of conservative Christians. How else can they justify their obsolete beliefs about the world if they had knowledge.
My parents were not Christians. I was saved over thirty years ago. I did not have a computer, nor internet. I had never been in an evangelical church, except once, before being saved by Christ. I don’t remember what the sermon was about, but not Bible reading methods. On the way out, I said to my husband, “Well, the people were nice and friendly, but I don’t know how anyone can believe in the Trinity!” One week later we were saved, born again at home, like I said alone. Suddenly, the Trinity and the deity of Christ made perfect sense, as well the Bible. Before it had always been confusing and nonsensical. So, no one taught me, except the Holy Spirit, I suppose as the scriptures say is the teacher.
There are missing elements to your testimony.
I believe in Jesus, but probably not in the same way you do.
New rule: people who try to overthrow democratically-elected governments with violence get one free pass before we punish them.