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Why God Placed Adam and Eve Under Paradoxical Injunctions: The Garden Scene through the Optics of Communication Theory
By Jared Balmer
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Abstract: This paper investigates the pragmatic aspect of communication between God and our first parents while in the Garden of Eden—the psychological impact of placing them under contradictory injunctions that result in a situation of "damned if you do and damned if you don't." God could not introduce knowledge that, by definition, also involves introducing evil, which is a prerequisite for choice. Instead he issued a paradoxical injunction that placed Adam and Eve in an influence-free de...