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05.2 Why the pain, suffering and death?

A second look at the Fall into Sin
05.2 - Pain and suffering

The questions are the title of the above painting by Paul Gauguin, explained in Wikipedia as follows:

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (French: D’où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ?) is an 1897–98 painting by French artist Paul Gauguin. The painting was created in Tahiti and is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Viewed as a masterpiece by Gauguin, the painting is considered “a philosophical work comparable to the themes of the Gospels”.

Wiki explains that Gauguin attended a Catholic boarding school with a strong religious focus, and although he became anticlerical, these questions stayed with him.

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2.  Mankind's Fall into Sin
(1)  If God had provided everything that was good for the man and woman to know in the Garden of Eden, what did they come to "know" by disobeying God's command?
Genesis 2:8-9
(2)  What feelings did they have, that they had never known?
Genesis 3:7-8
(3)  What did their nakedness represent?
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(4)  Does mankind have an innate sense of sin and guilt, although they may resist being told about sin?
Genesis 2:15-17
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