RE: Why the whole Adam and Eve Fall story makes no sense
March 19, 2016 at 4:23 am
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2016 at 4:26 am by Justtristo.)
(March 16, 2016 at 3:48 am)1994Californication Wrote: God creates everything, including Adam and Eve.Adam and Eve eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil...the tree of knowledge (does that mean god wanted us to be stupid? Or just to mindlessly obey - I mean, is the "wrong" done here because they disobeyed, or because they gained the knowledge of good and evil) and then banished them from the garden, before they could eat from the tree of life (that would give them eternal life) - after playing a game of hide and seek.And its never explained why that tree was there in the first place or what was the deal with the talking snake(most Christians would say it was Satan but it was never explicitly stated as such).
The "Orthodox" Christian interpretation of story makes no sense, I agree. However if you interpret the story different as it originally meant to the first readers of it, then it makes sense. The Garden of Eden story has the same meaning roughly as the Prometheus stealing Fire from the Gods did in Greek mythology.
If you use that interpretation, then the gods (including Yahweh) were afraid of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit that would make them as powerful and immortal as they (the gods) were.
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