God - a study in pointlessness.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

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Actually, it did. If they hadn't disobeyed God the world would not have changed. He told them "read my lips; don't eat of the fruit of that tree." Sounds pretty clear to me. If he hadn't taken action, he would have been a liar. I guess I don't have much to say about the subject.

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Oh, he's not a liar?

Genesis 2:16 - And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

All God said in his warning was that they would die. He said nothing about turning the world into a random deathtrap. He said nothing about punishing all of mankind for what they did. Not until after they did it. Then, all of a sudden...

Genesis 3:17-18 - “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

He made the punishment far worse than he initially said, and only after the deed was done. That, my good apologist, is pure, malicious deceit. Because, he already knew he was going to do it.

Those are some excellent points. Of course there was no celestial entity paling around with a couple of humans in a garden.

IMO, the God entity was an Assyrian/Babylonian or Persian Emperor and the Adam guy was one of his local minion kings who betrayed him to his enemy, most likely to the the Egyptian Pharaoh. There's a story in the Old Testament about the king of Tyre doing something that ticked off the big guy. It even makes reference to the king living in the Garden of Eden. So the Adam & Eve story could simply be a version of that story.