Millions of adherents appear to be oblivious of the fact that who ever wrote this particular scripture did not write it in a literal sense (and it was not inspired by a deity that no one can describe, that no one has a clue on whether it exist or not), it was written allegorically.
As the story goes, a serpent convinced Eve to eat of the tree of knowledge, she gave some of the fruit to Adam, God reprimanded both, and removed them from the Garden of Eden (Christians, if you comment, please don't cherry-pick or introduce red herrings, stick to the theme of the article). This apocryphal creator of humankind, then scolded and 'punished' Adam and future generations by saying, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life."
Keep in mind, this condemnation is supposed to come from an all encompassing deity who lovingly created us... +SMH
The most ignorant among us, realize there was never a literal, "tree of knowledge." Therefore, the true meaning of this anthropomorphized passage is clearly advising believers to exercise blind faith and do not educate yourself on sacrosanct matters, outside of what it says in the 'Holy Bible'.
To the misfortune of mankind, a couple billion people do just that; they relegate their awareness of metaphysical and spiritual topics, to a 2000-year-old book, and/or, only read books written by Christian authors and evangelical apologist.
God also cursed the snake by forcing him to crawl on his belly for the rest of his days. Genesis 3:14 states, "Then the Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life." Snakes are carnivores, which means they exclusively consume meat; they do not eat dust.
God also spoke directly to Cain after he killed his brother Abel. Genesis 4:9, "And the Lord said unto Cain, 'Where is Abel thy brother?' And he said, 'I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?' "
I suppose God was giving Adam, Eve, and Cain a chance to come clean, because in Geneses 3:11, he asked Adam and Eve, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
If God is omniscient, there would not have been a need to ask those questions. Furthermore, he would not have created such a flawed creature, destroy it with a great flood, only to have humankind come back even more wicked than the first go round. Such a deity, that would create a species, "in His own image," then destroy his own creation, would have to be an insane, despotic monarch. .
The unauthenticated universal ruler also spoke directly to Noah in Genesis 6:13, "So God said to Noah, I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them, I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood..." By the way, when Noah purportedly finished this Ark, he was over 600 years old.
So what the Bible is saying is that this omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omni-benevolent deity, destroyed his entire creation because apparently only Noah and his immediate family were the only 'righteous' people. Forget about all the innocent children and all the innocent animals, that would have been alive before the flood, guess they had to die too.
The full ridiculous, "Noah and The Flood" story, can be read in Genesis 6:9-21.
For what it's worth, the story of Noah and his Ark was taken directly from the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the earliest surviving works of literature, written hundreds of years before the Christian version. +SMH
"Adam and Eve," "The Garden of Eden and Eating Forbidden Fruit," "Cane and Abel," and "Noah's Ark," are just a few of the stories that makeup the biblical balderdash that so many benighted people believe to be the inspired words of an unseen, unsubstantiated, all-powerful, supreme being.
Honestly (and get mad all you want), you have to be a complete, special kind of idiot, to believe such garbage.
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