Garden of Eden was a setup...

[JaceDeanLove]

Why should a creator, who refuses to make himself undeniably known, get a free pass on anything? Because he created the world? Well good for him, but that doesn't excuse everything he does afterwards. My parents created me, but they don't have the right to do whatever they want with me. They get a lot of leeway for having created me, and raised me, but if they decided to set me on fire and kill me they wouldn't get a pass for that.

No you shouldn't have to defend him. He should come down and defend himself. And without the beating around the bush that he did with Job. Yet he doesn't show up, and all we have is three books filled with atrocities and contradictions, and a bunch of followers who can't come to a unanimous decision on what it means. You have the jews, christians, and muslims, and all the smaller denominations within them, and the only consensus we've come to after thousands of years of this is evidence that these tales were taken from older myths, and that virgin births were not all that uncommon in those times, and much of the world doesn't believe Yahweh exists any more than Zeus.

The Eden story is faulty, much like the other stories. You have two people who didn't know right from wrong because the knowledge of good and evil was kept from them, and they were told if they ate the fruit that something that had never happened before would happen to them.

You summed that up perfectly! Thanks.