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The snake did it

Context: I sometimes hear the argument that god explicitly told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit, the same way a parent tells its child not to stick things or touch electrical outlets. So god forcing the two of them to have children and dooming every human ever since is perfectly justified.

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  • It's even stupider than that.

    The tree was not, as is commonly thought, the tree of knowledge.

    It was the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

    So God tells them not to eat the fruit, but doesn't give them a sense of right and wrong. Why would they even know that they had to obey him?

    Then they eat the fruit, which they didn't know was a bad thing to do, and get punished for it.

    It would be like leaving a steak in the room with a dog, saying, "if you eat this, you're a bad dog," then coming back and punishing the dog for eating the steak.

  • Former Christian here, them choosing to eat the fruit and ignoring God's instructions is the entire point. This is a lesson for humanity so that they know the consequences of ignoring the one almighty.

    Don't down vote me here, I'm just the delivery girl.

    • Is there also some lore behind how could god punish them, even thought they couldn't distinguish between good and evil before eating from the tree? This question has already been mentioned in the comments, and nobody I've ever talked to knew the answer.

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