Sorry. If you had read the Adam and Eve without thinking, then you would easily fall into the trap of taking the story at face value, and just blame everything on them, without ever considering God’s own role and responsibility for their failure.
God is much to be blamed for their failures, as they.
Considered the following:
- If God was serious about not wanting them to eat from the forbidden tree, then why plant the Tree of Knowledge at all, right smack in the middle of Eden? Or why not place the angel with flaming sword to guard the Tree, prior to Adam’s creation, and not at the end of Genesis 3?
- Yes, God did warn Adam to not eat that fruit. But the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge was supposed to give them wisdom to distinguish right from wrong. If such knowledge weren’t innate in their creation, can they be really at fault?
I wants to elaborate a bit more with point 2.
If the fruit was meant to magically or automatically give a person the ability to distinguish right from wrong, then that must mean Adam wasn’t created to be able to distinguish between the two. If Adam was a normal person, then it would take time to learn, and more importantly, it would require experiences, to knowing how to do the right thing.
And judging by the story, Adam and Eve didn’t have much experiences in life, before they ate the fruits. The time between Eve’s creation, and Eve’s encounter with the talking serpent, would seem rather short period of time, which would mean Eve wasn’t alive for very long. Although they were created with adult bodies, in term of experiences, they were practically children, babies even.
So. Did they even really understand what “death” mean?
God told Adam they would die, should he eat from that tree, but since they were only alive for a very short period of time, they haven’t seen any animals “die”, so I don’t think they really understood what death is.
And as they were inexperienced with knowing the differences between right and wrong, I don’t it was so surprising that serpent has so easily persuaded Eve to eat the fruit, and so easily convinced Adam to join her.
As they had no knowledge of right and wrong, unless they ate the fruit, then God is much to blame as Adam, Eve and the serpent.
If you were ever a parent, YoursTrue, you would know that teaching your child what is wrong and what is dangerous, with just words won’t stop them from taking unnecessary risks. Learning right from wrong, takes time…time they didn’t seem to have. So really it is your and your husband to watch over them, and your responsibility to protect you kid(s) from danger as much possible...something that God didn’t do.
If God did create everything, and put the Tree of Knowledge in the centre of the Garden, and this was a test of their free wills, then God had rigged the test, so they would fail, so really God is to blame as he gave them no knowledge to distinguish right from wrong.