Moving this discussion here. It's interesting, but doesn't belong on the Main page
Adam and Eve. You live in a garden of paradise and pleasure free of pain, sickness and disease. God (immortal, omnipresent, omnipotent, famously short temper) tells you that there is only one rule. Don't then go and eat the apple like a moron...
I can surmise that Adam and Eve before the fall had the minds of little kids. Most children will often get themselves into trouble, even if they're warned by their parents not to do so. In addition, because they have never experienced pain and punishment before, they didn't think taking a little bite out of the fruit of good and evil was going to be such a big deal. It wasn't until after they were banished out of Eden and forced to suffer the original sin did they understood the consequences and felt guilt for their actions (like a parent punishing a child by putting him in the corner or denying him the things he likes so he won't do it again).
There is also the fact that the fruit bears the knowledge of Good and Evil. The only reason they didn't eat it was because God said don't do it, and they were like "Cool, whatevs." Then along come a serpent who, for whatever reason, thinks it would be just peachy-keen to go and make the humans do it anyway. He does it by tricking the humans, with interpretations and translations ranging from using wordplay to make her think it was a Secret Test of Character and was SUPPOSED to eat the fruit, to exploiting Eve's obvious shortcomings as a woman, to flat out lying about the whole thing and getting them to defy God's will because they literally didn't know any better. So chock the snake right up there with A&E as fitting this trope, since even if they hadn't ratted him out, God still would have known who put them up to it and took away its limbs and make snakes and humans eternal enemies.
Another interpretation is that God expected them to eat the fruit, and then own up to what they did with intelligent arguments, proving that they were worthy of living in Paradise.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
Moving this discussion here. It's interesting, but doesn't belong on the Main page
- Adam and Eve. You live in a garden of paradise and pleasure free of pain, sickness and disease. God (immortal, omnipresent, omnipotent, famously short temper) tells you that there is only one rule. Don't then go and eat the apple like a moron...
- The Bible didn't say what kind of fruit it was that they ate.
- I can surmise that Adam and Eve before the fall had the minds of little kids. Most children will often get themselves into trouble, even if they're warned by their parents not to do so. In addition, because they have never experienced pain and punishment before, they didn't think taking a little bite out of the fruit of good and evil was going to be such a big deal. It wasn't until after they were banished out of Eden and forced to suffer the original sin did they understood the consequences and felt guilt for their actions (like a parent punishing a child by putting him in the corner or denying him the things he likes so he won't do it again).
- There is also the fact that the fruit bears the knowledge of Good and Evil. The only reason they didn't eat it was because God said don't do it, and they were like "Cool, whatevs." Then along come a serpent who, for whatever reason, thinks it would be just peachy-keen to go and make the humans do it anyway. He does it by tricking the humans, with interpretations and translations ranging from using wordplay to make her think it was a Secret Test of Character and was SUPPOSED to eat the fruit, to exploiting Eve's obvious shortcomings as a woman, to flat out lying about the whole thing and getting them to defy God's will because they literally didn't know any better. So chock the snake right up there with A&E as fitting this trope, since even if they hadn't ratted him out, God still would have known who put them up to it and took away its limbs and make snakes and humans eternal enemies.
- Or it simply was a trap deliberately set up by malevolent God in order to to punish the hapless victims which he well knew they couldn't resist the temptation.
- Another interpretation is that God expected them to eat the fruit, and then own up to what they did with intelligent arguments, proving that they were worthy of living in Paradise.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett