Shadetree Theology

I was listening to Teresa Tomeo’s show this morning, on our local Catholic radio station, 910AM, and her co-host, Father Frank Pavone, made some comments about free will and how the choices we make all have their root in original sin. Adam and Eve eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil did not endow them with the awareness to distinguish between right and wrong; Adam and Eve already knew that eating of the Tree of Knowledge was forbidden and contrary to God’s will. What eating the forbidden fruit did was to deform our will away from obeying the true source of all knowledge, which is God, to deciding for ourselves what is good or evil.

Imo there are at least three aspects to Adam and Eve’s disobedience; the first, was to pride themselves into deciding that something they already knew to be evil, was indeed evil; secondly, they hide their shame, the doubt about the aforementioned knowledge; lastly, given the opportunity to seek forgiveness, they instead deny the truth of their actions and blame God.

In choosing to decide for themselves what is good or evil, they have chosen the means of their death, separation from God.