Garden of Eden was a setup...

[abaris]

No. You should follow the message of the bible.

Not that the New Testament would be all happy go lucky, but the message to get from the Old Testament is brutal capital punishment for all kinds of things, waging wars and sometimes genocide. There's little love to be found in that book. And little to strive for either if you're halfway decent.

And I was told and told again, even by Jesus himself in the NT, that the Old Testament is the law and he hadn't come to change it. Which is hardly surprising, since the whole Jesus story wouldn't make any sense without the old book.