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SteveB28
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Oh and the great Setup at The Garden of Eden.
"I'm going to put this tree here. And because I'm all knowing my basic understanding of foresight and probability tells me she's gonna take the fruit."
Seriously though Why was that tree in Eden? He could have put that tree in Heaven or Just not make it at all
Why did he make it delicious fruit?
Why did he make it so low and easy to grab? 100 Foot tall tree discourages me from getting fruit I'll tell ya that.
He made it such an easy thing to grab that fruit. He also makes a talking snake that has more common sense then the two perfect humans he just created BEFOREHAND. What? And the snake gets in Eden how? Seriously the Earth is only like what seven days old by now? He'd have to make the snake inside the Garden or it must have zero security.
He then BLAMES the humans because they ate the fruit. Knowing full well he created them without knowledge of really anything. He calls them evil and exiles them. He destroys humanity instead of saying "I knew this was gonna happen."
Analytics of the first like 5 chapters of the Bible will make you question right off the bat. This is all common sense to us but to people who read this they're like "yea the Eve is so evil for damning humanity like that" and I've heard so many people condemn poor Eve. She was ignorant, she didn't actually know better.
And, of course, the more we read into that particular fable, the more Grimm it becomes. (Forgive the terrible pun)
We are led to believe that Adam and Eve were created by God as innocents, like children. So much so, that they had no concept of right and wrong. This is evidenced by the instruction that they were not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, lest "they become like us."
So, at the time that God places them in that garden, with that tree standing right in front of them, they had no way of knowing that it would be 'wrong' to ignore the order of God not to eat from the tree. It was not until they ate from the tree, that they would become aware of their 'sin' - the whole purpose of the tree was to imbue that awareness.
So, the result is that they are punished for a wrongdoing for which they had no idea that it was wrong to do, until after the event!
And then this shocking display of deceit and injustice by God is compounded by decreeing that all the descendants of this couple would 'inherit' their guilt.
And to make the immorality complete, of course God would have known in advance that this was all going to unfold.
And people claim to worship this creature?
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