Adam And Eve
The biblical story of Adam and Eve is ingrained in society. Very few people alive today would say they do not know the rough story of creation and the worlds first human inhabitants. The bible narrative also explains the whole reason for the fall of mankind into original sin and why it is that mankind can do evil in this world.
In genesis 2, After the creation of the heavens and earth and then the Garden of Eden God decided On the 6th day to created Adam and put him in the Garden of Eden to work and tend the garden. God explains to Adam that he may eat any of the fruit in the garden with the exception of one. The fruit from the tree of knowledge. God explains that should he take the forbidden fruit he will surely die.
Adam names all the animals in the Garden but soon realized unlike the animals he has no companion and is alone. God sees this and makes him a helper. Eve. God then takes a rib from Adam to make Eve. The bible explains god did this so that man and woman would become one, the allegory of the story being that this would be a bond of man and woman :- marriage.
God is all powerful and all knowing. God can literally do anything he wishes he is omnipotent and Omniscient. God is limitless and not bound by the laws of physics. He creates a world with all of it's many intricacies, the flora and the fauna. Then decides to create a man to tend his garden, and a woman to help.
Adam and Eve have no knowledge of evil are total innocent and have no sin. They are both naked, and they felt no shame.
This is the start of the human race according to the bible.
In genesis 2, After the creation of the heavens and earth and then the Garden of Eden God decided On the 6th day to created Adam and put him in the Garden of Eden to work and tend the garden. God explains to Adam that he may eat any of the fruit in the garden with the exception of one. The fruit from the tree of knowledge. God explains that should he take the forbidden fruit he will surely die.
Adam names all the animals in the Garden but soon realized unlike the animals he has no companion and is alone. God sees this and makes him a helper. Eve. God then takes a rib from Adam to make Eve. The bible explains god did this so that man and woman would become one, the allegory of the story being that this would be a bond of man and woman :- marriage.
God is all powerful and all knowing. God can literally do anything he wishes he is omnipotent and Omniscient. God is limitless and not bound by the laws of physics. He creates a world with all of it's many intricacies, the flora and the fauna. Then decides to create a man to tend his garden, and a woman to help.
Adam and Eve have no knowledge of evil are total innocent and have no sin. They are both naked, and they felt no shame.
This is the start of the human race according to the bible.
The Fall
A talking snake persuades eve that she should eat the forbidden fruit. The snake informs Eve that she will not die if she eats the forbidden fruit, "For god knows when you eat the fruit your eyes will be opened and you will be like god knowing good and evil."
so this is when Eve ate the forbidden fruit, gave some to Adam and both there eyes were opened. They realized they were naked.
God now comes along looking for Adam and Eve and they hide, knowing they were naked. God called out to them. Adam answers that he hid as he was afraid because I was naked. God then asked who told you that you were naked? have you eaten from the tree of knowledge that I commanded you not to eat?
God then condemns Adam and eve, and the serpent.
Genesis 3.
1'Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.
5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head,and you will strike his heel.”
16 To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
The narrative is supposed to reinforce God as hurt, and betrayed and so punishes, Adam and eve, the snake and all mankind for it's treachery and disobedience.
Adam and eve were pure, they had no knowledge of good and evil. Totally innocent. As say a child would be that any parent brings into the world today. Having created this idyllic world and then idyllic humans to live in this world totally free of good and evil why make a tree of good and evil? Why then put that tree in the middle of your idyllic garden? Why make the snake to tempt your idyllic creations?
God invents lying. He does not explain to Adam and Eve that they are immortal but simply tells them that they will die if they eat from the tree of knowledge. supposedly they have an understanding of what this actually means. Today people still debate and disagree with a lifetime of knowledge what death is and what it really actually means. But innocent Adam and eve who know nothing and are totally innocent are not given that knowledge to gain any understanding of it. he also invents death and punishment. All within one sentence for humanity.
These are the first evil acts that god performs.
He Lies. The tree did not kill them.
Punishment and death ( violence) Where as before they were immortal.
Temptation, Condemnation and judgement, Puts the tree of knowledge in the middle of the garden and expects what is in effect 2 newborns to grasp something that is kept from them and not given or taught. They have no notion, insight or understanding of good, evil, betrayal or obedience. God then condemns them with no chance of defending themselves or even giving them a second chance with education and explanation of their actions.
No empathy or understanding or forgiveness. God is supposed to be omnipotent but fails miserably at not being able to comprehend or see the outcome of his deeds and actions, so blames Adam and eve for his own total lack of vision and foresight as a supposed omnipotent entity.
Any parent on the planet knows that a child needs to be taught and educated to understand such a thing as right and wrong. That children do things they have no understanding of without malice, care or thought and that they learn by their mistakes. It is not within God to have the slightest understanding of the situation. A situation of his doing, of his inability to realize what would happen with putting this tree in this garden with uneducated children. God lacks empathy or forgiveness of any kind.
If this omnipotent, Omnipresent God made them he clearly does not know and cannot know what is really in the hearts and minds of his creation as people today claim. So why call him god?
Adam and eve are set up from the start. They had no way OF UNDERSTANDING the situation OR DEFENDING themselves falling in to the capricious evil trap set by God. They were totally unprepared as god had denied them any kind of defense, knowledge or understanding of the coming snare.
God then throws his children out of paradise. he curses everyone and inflicts pain, punishment and death.
He is totally consumed like a pure narcissist. He is full of anger, revenge, condemnation, judgement, punishment and retribution for HIS own ACTIONS AND DEEDS. God lacks any sort of grace, empathy, love, compassion, understanding, or remorse.
And to top it all off he also condemns the rest of humanity to the same fate. THIS IS narcissistic evil pure and simple.