Do you believe; and why?

[Dill]

(05-08-2019, 07:57 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Then who did?  They certainly knew the difference between good and evil before they ate any fruit.  They knew it was wrong to disobey God, but the did it anyway.

Every Christian knows that "Man" fell by exercising his own free will. Somehow. 
Cannot assign responsibility and blame without recourse to some conception of free will.

Hate to keep dropping these philosopher references, but have you read Nietzsche?
Geneology of Morals? Beyond Good and Evil?

NB: Well, actually, "Man" would not have fallen on his own, endowed as he was with REASON.  But some rib-born humans are rather less endowed, and because "Man" is attracted to them, there is an angle for שָׂטָן  to work.