GENESIS 3

It's been a while since we've read from the Bible, the last thing we see is Adam and Eve running around naked in the garden of Eden.  They know no shame, in fact, they know nothing because God has not blessed them with any kind of real intelligence so it must have been quite a task for Adam to name all the worlds animals not to mention how long it would have taken him.  So he and Eve would probably be quite exhausted by now.  On saying that, I'm not sure what she is doing except being a wife.

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.”

First of all, lets tell it like it is, the serpent is a snake.  It's as simple as that.  God made every animal according to it's kind so it's a snake.  I know there are many people who will argue about this and say it's a devil or whatever.  It's a snake.  Secondly, it talks.  A talking snake, and it talks their language (which I guess in the case would be Hebrew?)  This story is becoming more and more unbelievable as it goes along, but lets suspend our disbelief one more time and read on.

  The snake tells Eve that she wont actually die if she eats the apple (after all we all know it's an apple from all the picture books in Sunday school) instead she will gain knowledge of good and evil.  The snake has obviously eaten the apple because it sounds like he knows what he's talking about.  But god said no and he did, after all, create her; so who are you going to listen to?

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.”

Question answered; god is shit, the snake is the shit!  There is no respect for god here at all - between the two fictional characters  one of which created you, which would you believe?  So, she ate the apple that, and lets be honest, looked damn fine and gave some to Adam who was with her.  So, and here's the kicker, Adam was there all along and said nothing.  It wasn't like he was waving his finger at the snake and saying "Ah, ah little snakey, we can't do that or god will kill us so don't be giving my missus any ideas like that." - but no, he obviously wanted to have an apple also.

  Where was god when all this was happening?  Lets face it, if you make ignorant people with no understanding of the difference between right and wrong then put them in a wonderful garden with yummy fruit, tell them not to eat the apple and then just leave them to it when you know there is a cheeky, talking snake in there - you only have yourself to blame.  But no, god was taking a walk through the garden.  Adam must have heard a twig break under gods sandal and, knowing he did wrong, hid.  The Lord called out "where are you?"  Stupid question from an omnipotent deity don't you think?

The upshot is, Adam and Eve now know God is a liar because they are still alive.

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.”

So, Adam blames his wife for what he did and Eve blames the snake.  First they hide, then they lie, then they lay blame on others all because they know they have done wrong.  Just like little kids and another reason why god shouldn't have just left them to themselves.  Now the snake, who got all the blame, gets cursed from god for doing what he did.  The snake was only telling the truth, that's a bad lesson from god I think.  He them makes a snake crawl on it's belly... did the snake walk upright before all the shit hit the fan?  Also, if this is a "just so" story it doesn't make sence; I have never seen a snake eat dust.

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.”

And god created sexism and he saw it was good.

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.”

See what happens when you listen to your wife?  Now, maybe many thousands of years ago growing your own food was something you had to do if you wanted to eat, now, well I love to get in the garden and am very proud to grow my own fruit and veg and if I make a sweat doing it I know at least I've done a good work out as well.  Oh, by the way, we are now mortal beings. 

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.

So, god kicked them out because they were naughty and made flaming swords that protected the tree of life. Where is this magical garden anyway?  

HYPOTHESIS:  The garden of Eden is a beautiful and magical place made by god which contains the tree of knowledge and the tree of life and is protected by flaming swards.  The null hypothesis is there is no garden with flaming swards.

  To test this hypothesis we would need to find such a place.  If we cannot find such a place in all this earth then the null hypothesis prevails.  Of course AiG has the answer; the flood (to which we will soon be exploring) wiped out the garden and it's flaming swords.  That's convenient.  It seems like everything that can't be answered is because of the global flood.  So, the extraordinary claim has no extraordinary evidence which leads me back to the null hypothesis.

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