religious/philosophical
I just have to say, in the story of Adam and Eve, Eve and Adam could not have committed a sin because, prior to eating of the fruit, they didn't know what sin was. They didn't know what right and wrong was. Therefore, they couldn't have committed sin. They were told not to eat of it, but they didn't know it was wrong. I actually think that their eating of the fruit was progress. Perhaps this was the birth of true consciousness, equivalent to the slap on the ass that a baby gets after birth. Just like when I correct a dog for shitting on the rug, it doesn't know that the deed is wrong to shit on the rug, that dog just reacts to my shoving it's nose in the shit and saying "no" but it doesn't have conscious awareness of doing something wrong. It has no concept of what is right and wrong. This lines up with evolution, at some point, the human brain became evolved from reactive ape to complex thinking human with conscious thought and a sense of ethics. Cain knew it was wrong to kill Abel, this, then, was the ORIGINAL sin (original meaning first). At some point we figured out it wasn't such a good idea to kill each other (the consequences are such that we are likely to be killed back, bad for us, bad for the species) and the fact that we do it anyway, is sin or wrong or whatever word you wish you use.