How did Eve sin without knowing good and evil?

How did Eve sin without knowing good and evil?

Temples are filled with people appealing and crying out to an invisible being who, if he magically appeared there, would frighten them so much that some would not even resist, suffering a nervous breakdown or a fatal heart attack.

But faith does not allow us to believe that the invisible god speaks or appears in the midst of prayers; in fact, we do not want or desire for him to truly exist in a concrete way.

Contracts are made between the devotee and his holiness, promising blessings. If the graces granted are fulfilled, their awareness of gratitude and reciprocity presupposes bodily sacrifices demonstrated through walks and pilgrimages to fulfill their resolutions, recorded in words or notes.

But the good priest and great orator shows a sacred book where he tells the legends of a Harry Potter who walked on water, brought the dead back to life, multiplied three loaves and five fishes to feed more than five thousand men; defeats armies, burns cities like a nuclear bomb; drowns all humanity in a downpour followed by a planetary flood, killing everything that breathes on earth; makes donkeys and snakes speak; creates languages, a whole bunch, all at once to confuse arrogant men and the human pride that the Creator himself instilled in them when he created them.

They were like two children, born adults, without childhood, without father or mother, without siblings, knowing absolutely nothing yet: Who they were; where they came from; who put them there; what the sun and the moon were; what rain was; what winds, thunder, and lightning were; they didn't know their bodies; they didn't know many words; they didn't know how to lie; they were still getting used to their bodies, when to sleep and wake; what night and day were; the seasons.

So many things to discover on the new, newly created earth—in fact, the entire universe was new, newly formed—so many things to learn: They didn't know what jealousy was; They had never dated, never kissed, never had children, and never knew how to care for them. They were born or formed as ready-made adults, and God placed them in a zoo to be innocent, lacking the knowledge of good and evil. But how could someone who had not yet possessed evil disobey the third law given by the Creator: so simple that it was the prohibition against eating something that was right there, easy to take and eat?

The first human couple on Earth did not yet know good and evil, yet they committed evil, error, original sin: this is the paradox and the contradiction, for if they had not yet eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, therefore, they did not know evil. So, where did the evil suggested by the serpent come from, inducing them to be evil and corrupt their purity by disobeying and eating the forbidden fruit?

They could only disobey if, before tasting the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, they knew in advance what evil was.

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político