Bob. Everything you believe about Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is not true.
It is all second-hand nonsense filled with very very very common lies and misunderstandings.
You need to read the Genesis account for yourself because nothing you have claimed is actually in it.
That's not what the story says-- they were as babes. Innocent. Naive. Stupid, even.
No. That is not written anywhere in the Genesis account, the Bible or any other book of scripture.
The moment Adam was created God communicated with him and he understood God's speech and instruction.
According to the Genesis account, the first thing God did with Adam was place him in the Garden and instructed him on how to "dress it and to keep it" (Genesis 2:15)
Then God explained to Adam that he was free to eat of every tree in the Garden save the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. (Genesis 2:17)
After the warning about the consequences of eating that fruit the Lord had Adam name all the animals that were brought before him. (Genesis 2:18-20)
Then after the Lord had made Eve from Adam's rib Adam testified of Woman's value to Man and he eventually named her (Genesis 3:20) then he declared that one of the purposes of Man was to "leave his father and his mother, and shall
cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." (Genesis 2:24)
God did not treat Adam like a baby. He gave Adam charge over the entirety of the Garden and allowed him to name all the animals of the Earth and even his own wife.
Adam was not naive or stupid. He was able to communicate, receive instruction and understand deep concepts such as death and marriage.
All that Adam lacked before partaking of the fruit was a Knowledge of Good and Evil and experience with the conditions of mortality.
That's not what the story says.
Really? What does "the story" say?
I understand that you have a false "story" in your head given to you by ignorant or misled people, because no where in the Genesis account does it claim that Adam lacked any knowledge despite the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Read it for yourself.
Where in the Genesis account does it claim that Adam lacked anything besides a Knowledge of Good and Evil?
That's not what the story says-- seems to be a theme here, you, making up what isn't in the story.
That's rich coming from someone who hasn't ever read the Genesis account or even quoted from it to try and back up your claims like I have.
All the Genesis account claims is that the Lord commanded Adam not to partake of the fruit because he would die if he did so. (Genesis 2:17)
We now know that the partaking of the fruit caused changes to occur not only to Adam and Eve, but also to the Earth itself.
In the Garden, Adam and Eve knew no pain or sorrow. They had not yet entered into the conditions of mortality.
This was why the Lord told Eve that, now that she was entering into mortality, she would experience great pain and sorrow in child birth. (Genesis 3:16)
He then explained to Adam that because they had partaken of the fruit, the Earth would no longer be a fruitful paradise and he would need to toil to survive. He would need to till the Earth and combat the negative effects of mortality (thorns and thistles) in order to make bread and live. (Genesis 3:17-18)
He also informed them both that they were now destined to experience physical death. (Genesis 3:19)
The Lord was not punishing or cursing anyone. He was informing them that their actions had led to certain changes being made both to them and the Earth.
The Earth had been cursed. Not by God, but by the Fall of Adam and Eve.
No-- the language god uses is CLEARLY PUNISHING. He literally curses Adam-- "you'll work until the day you die"
That is not a punishment.
That is simply informing someone about the inevitability of mortal life.
You claim that I would be "punishing" my child if I told him the same thing?
That he would need to work to survive and that he will eventually die?
He literally curses Eve-- "You and your daughters will experience deadly and painful childbirth, for all time"
Nope. He simply informed her that child bearing in mortality required great pain and even sorrow.
You are interjecting your own personal (and false) interpretation to the text.
Yeah-- God lied about that too-- before? Adam would DIE THAT VERY DAY. Adam does not die that very day.
Again, you are interjecting your own personal interpretation.
What is a "day" to God? A 24-hour period?
The 24-hour day has not always been agreed upon by Man, so why assume that God is subject to that restriction?
Adam was given a brief period to live in mortality and it eventually expired and he died.
What a "day" is to God (a timeless Being) is anyone's guess.
Death was the only consequence, supposedly.
That's a huge assumption.
The Genesis account does not record God claiming that death would be the
only consequence of partaking of the fruit.
Stop interjecting your opinion into the text.
Irony: Nothing you claimed is actually in the story! And you have the stones to lie about what I wrote?
You are woefully ignorant of these things and you make yourself look more and more foolish each time you talk about them.
Study the scriptures and stop spreading the dumb.
