Animals In The Garden

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by jediwill83

Ok, I was hinting that the "sin" in the Garden could have been something other than eating a literal fruit. There was a trail there. 🤣

As far as I can determine, the idea that Eve had sexual relations with the serpent is from the Talmud (doctrine of the Pharisees).

If that was the "forbidden fruit", then Adam also had sexual relations with the serpent, correct?

Or else, perhaps you are suggesting that the forbidden fruit was simply sexual relations period? Just like Augustine and the Manichaeans and other Gnostics believe, that sex was the "original sin"? Never mind that God said "be fruitful and multiply", meaning God created sexual reproduction as a fundamental law of biological life, basically on the same level as breathing or eating?

The sin in the Garden was the disobedience of Adam. I think we have discussed this elsewhere, and it was brought up that the forbidden "knowledge of good and evil" was in fact the experiential knowledge of one's moral condition as a direct consequence of disobedience to God's moral law. In any event, there is nothing in the Scripture to suggest that sex was the thing that was forbidden, and the arguments used to support the idea that Eve had carnal relations with the serpent lead to numerous other objectionable and illogical conclusions. Not to mention that the idea is simply not warranted by Scripture.