Moral status of man during creation?

Answer 1

As the world was already created when man was placed upon the earth. He was in a pure and undefiled state until Cain slew Able. The so called sin of Adam and Eve was but a tansgression of the law and cannot legally be classed as a sin.

Answer 2

In a nutshell, we have to ask: WHO IS ASKING?

Easy to answer from the safety of a comfortable home office. Not so easy if you're the victim of torture or terrorism and living in a society that can't guarantee your next meal.

Humans are neither moral nor immoral except as judged by community standards. Who will question the cannibal (or the pope, for that matter) on his own turf? You will be humbled quickly, if not also judged severely by local standards.

The real question then: Who is it that's asking?

Perhaps a better question: "Would you rather be RIGHT... or HAPPY?"

In the long run, if we DO ask "Who are we... and what are we doing here?" from a good-versus-evil perspective, we may see how we have only harmed ourselves when we come from a perspective of being INDIVIDUALS whose only goal is to survive at the expense of others around us (instead of joining together for the good of the whole).