"What if..." is a new feature here at Acts of the Apostasy. It's designed to get your grey matter churning and brain cells motoring. I'm not sure how often it will appear here, because it depends on how often my grey matter gets churning and brain cells get motoring. So it could be rather sporadic.This feature is intended to provide serious reflection on posers, conundrums, enigmas and other such questions. It's not brain-teaser material per se, but basically I'll present questions to which I don't have the answers. Like, "What if I don't remember my wedding anniversary?"; or "What if I do squeeze the toothpaste from the middle?"
I'm just kidding. And neither one of those is the "What if...?" question, so just hang on.
Here's the inaugural "What if..." question, courtesy of one of my 7th grade catechism students.
"What if only Eve had eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, but Adam refused? Would there still have been original sin?"
It's one I had never heard asked before, and rather than tell her something that might make me sound dumber than I really am, I told her I'd try and find out. So, I figured, hey, why not run it by my readers, most of whom are terribly brighter and smarter than me? I told my student I'd have an answer for her by next Sunday's class, so you have five days.
p.s. Only I'm allowed to ask "What if...?" Any readers trying to sneak one into the combox will be hunted down by The Posse and subjected to cruel and unusual torture...like listening to me sing all the parts of a Wagner opera. Trust me - you don't want that. That is all!
