Evicted From Paradise

In the story of Genesis, God creates light, darkness, creatures, among many other things. However, one of the most important creations was man. God places the man, named Adam, in the Garden of Eden. God tells Adam that he can eat from any tree he wants except for the big tree that contains all knowledge of good and evil. God later creates Eve to accompany Adam in the Garden. A snake convinces Eve to eat an apple from that tree, and Adam and Eve then realize they are naked and become self conscious. When god finds out they are from the tree, God punishes them. “To the woman he said, ‘I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to your children.” “To Adam he said, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ ‘cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.’” He also kicks them out of the Garden of Eden. I believe that this all happening was God’s fault. Firstly, God warns only Adam not to eat from the tree. Although it is shown later that Eve does know about the rule, Eve is created after God has already told Adam about the rule. Also, God is clearly tempting Adam and Eve. God says, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you surely die.” He is telling them that this tree has all of the knowledge, but he somehow expects them to not eat from it. That is like putting a cookie in front of a five-year-old kid, telling him not to eat it, and walking away. It becomes more and more tempting, so them eating from this tree can be directly blamed on God himself.