Why not enmity between man and woman?

[RavenSky]

So, the Snake is subtle and talked Woman into breaking the only rule God saw a need to put down at the time.
She talked Adam into joining her and breaking the only rule they had.
So, Snake and Woman are the ones that got Adam in trouble with God.

God made Snake and Woman enemies so they wouldn't gang up on Adam.

Why didn't God create enmity between Adam and Woman? Wouldn't that have been more fitting? Then she couldn't get innocent Adam in trouble any more, he'd know not to listen to the conniving bitch.

Instead he forced them to make nice and be a couple. Why?

Funny thing is, when god said not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Eve wasn't even created yet.

She heard it 2nd hand from Adam apparently.

Second-hand god words seems to be a theme with this deity

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The Genesis tall tales are just somebody's Just-So stories. But they are obviously redacted from an earlier set of tall tales we no longer have access to. So we don't have the full tale to understand what was the meaning of all this, the story teller's viewpoint.

Why were these magic trees in the garden? Who were they for? After the flood, whee does God plant his new magic tree gardens? Why did this God critter want us naked, ignorant and mortal? If the trees were so important, why couldn't God erect a Sears and Roebuck electric fence around them?

We don't? We are told exactly why certain things happen. Why man and woman are banished from the Garden, not because of eating the fruit, but instead because of God being jealousy and irrational. What the story has lost is the polytheistic portions, where the Garden is full of all sorts of gods and what not. This is hinted with the reference to "us" and the talking serpent.

Obviously, because this is a "Just So" story, certain elements must be included. Man obviously can't just not eat the fruit because the reason of hard farming or difficult birthing has to be explained.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Remember that Adam & Eve had no Franklin Graham avatar to tell them how to interpret God's moods. In some ways, it really was a paradise.

 

[Bloodnf]

The Islamic perspective is different than the Christian perspective here.
In the Islamic version both Adam and Eve were tempted at the same time and both ate. So Eve is not blamed.
What tree it was is not given any importance in the Islamic version.
Also the Islamic teaching is that God created Man for the earth so paradise was temporary abode.
In Islam Satan is the enemy of mankind. But Adam and Eve had no understanding of what evil, temptation or sinning was as they had no experience so the encounter with Satan and their Fall from heaven taught them to recognize what God had warned them from.
And of course the major Islamic difference is that Adam and Eve repented and asked for forgiveness from God and they were forgiven. Islam does not teach the concept of Original Sin.

 

[Lion IRC]

The Islamic perspective is different than the Christian perspective here.

Not really

In the Islamic version both Adam and Eve were tempted at the same time and both ate.

Genesis says the same thing.

So Eve is not blamed.

Adam and Eve blamed themselves.
Neither one more than the other.
If it was solely Eve's fault then why was Adam banished from Eden?
They both equally disobeyed God in the same act of sin. Neither one more or less.

What tree it was is not given any importance in the Islamic version.

Same in Christianity. Its the act of disobedience which matters.

Also the Islamic teaching is that God created Man for the earth so paradise was temporary abode.

Well that would differ from Christianity a lot. In Christianity, the earth was created for man not the other way around.

In Islam Satan is the enemy of mankind.

Same as in Christianity.

But Adam and Eve had no understanding of what evil, temptation or sinning was as they had no experience so the encounter with Satan and their Fall from heaven taught them to recognize what God had warned them from.

Same as in Christianity. They learned the consequences of disobedience.

And of course the major Islamic difference is that Adam and Eve repented and asked for forgiveness from God and they were forgiven.

Same as in Christianity.

Islam does not teach the concept of Original Sin.

Really? Where does sin come from then? From God?

 

[bilby]

Not really



Genesis says the same thing.

So Eve is not blamed.

Adam and Eve blamed themselves.
Neither one more than the other.
If it was solely Eve's fault then why was Adam banished from Eden?
They both equally disobeyed God in the same act of sin. Neither one more or less.

What tree it was is not given any importance in the Islamic version.

Same in Christianity. Its the act of disobedience which matters.

Also the Islamic teaching is that God created Man for the earth so paradise was temporary abode.

Well that would differ from Christianity a lot. In Christianity, the earth was created for man not the other way around.

In Islam Satan is the enemy of mankind.

Same as in Christianity.

But Adam and Eve had no understanding of what evil, temptation or sinning was as they had no experience so the encounter with Satan and their Fall from heaven taught them to recognize what God had warned them from.

Same as in Christianity. They learned the consequences of disobedience.

And of course the major Islamic difference is that Adam and Eve repented and asked for forgiveness from God and they were forgiven.

Same as in Christianity.

Islam does not teach the concept of Original Sin.

Really? Where does sin come from then? From God?

According to Christianity, all things come from God.

So the Christian answer must be 'yes'.

Romans 11:36 and all that...

 

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