0148 What is proposition seventeen?
Adam and Eve bring disorder into the world.
Disorder opens the door to sin and death.
0149 Walton admits that no one has figured out why sin is particular to each of us, universal to all of us together, and radical in its expression.
He raises the topic of original sin.
0150 How can we all be subject to original sin?
Walton argues that sin and death enters the world with Adam and Eve when the founding pair is held accountable. Accountability is the key. Adam and Eve break the law. Then, God holds them accountable. They are evicted from the premises.
0151 Does this argument contribute to an insider’s noumenal experience, associated to the phenomena of speech-alone talk?
0152 First, there is an order, divinely ordained, for Adam and Eve take for granted. Within this order, there is one rule. Do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Can the same be said for every budding order within the Ubaid, Uruk and Sumerian Dynastic?
The grounding command is bound to a contradiction, “for on the day that you eat of it, you will die.”
Does that mean that “wisdom” kills?
0153 The question does not make much sense, because the wisdom of God is the fruit of experience. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. What fear do Adam and Eve display? They seem to feel entitled. Eve has so little fear, that she is in touch with the serpent. I suspect that she is ready to take over the place. Eden is nice. But, Eve can do better. If only she had the… um… correct expertise.
0154 Neither Adam nor Eve think that they will be held accountable.
0155 So, Walton (who is following Paul on this) offers a basic insight into our current Lebenswelt.
Watch out for people who think that they will never be held into account.
0156 Now, this makes me suspect that Walton’s focus on order and disorder is not enough.
Accountability is more than order. Accountability demands honesty.
Why do I say this?
Most people who think that they will never be held into account are not exactly honest.