I asked a christian this one time, and their brain literally exploded; it was pretty gross, but hey...one less christian!

If you're looking for fairness, Yahweh is the wrong tree to be barking up. This is the same dude who condemned all of humanity to death for this original sin, the same guy who told Abraham to sacrifice his son as a test of loyalty, the same insecure prick who tortured Job just to impress Satan, the same jerk who hardened Pharaoh's heart and then punished him for said hardened heart, the same asshole who exterminated two cities because he heard there was utter wickedness yet favored Lot who offered his daughters to be gang raped by a small mob (but turned Lot's wife to salt for looking back toward their home as it was being destroyed).

Considering that 'Eve' was cloned from the material extracted from 'Adam' then logically and scientifically Eve would have been a Steve.

There are so many holes in that story. If god knew the future, why would he tempt them by putting the tree there to start with, and if god is unable to lie, why did he tell them they would die that very day if they ate of the fruit? Why would he condemn every descendent of A & E just for disobeying one arbitrary rule?

Because ‘god’ told them not to eat it - their ‘sin’ was disobedience to ‘god.’. He didn’t want them to eat it because then they’d ‘have knowledge of good and evil.’ Wanted to keep them in the dark...ignorant and foolish...kind of like is still happening...brain washing still works.

I know a lot of people take Genesis literally but I've always considered it an allegory that's deeply flawed. If we are to assume this "god/creator" has the power to create all life, then we would have to see his Adam and Eve creations as defective. Why did he have to "test" them in the first place? And if he is all-knowing of all things at all times, wouldn't he have known how this "test" would turn out?

I have always considered the real purpose of Genesis was to establish and justify male dominance with the message that women will deceive and manipulate men if men do not control them. It took no less than the figure of Satan himself who had to work at manipulating and persuading Eve but it took Eve very little effort to persuade Adam. Personally, I see this as depicting the woman as the superior intellect. Satan is portrayed as equally god-like so it is significant that he chose Eve and not Adam as the one he would have to convince himself. He left Eve to persuade Adam.

We see it today in how many of the world's religions subjugate women and even how evangelical Christians use the Bible to claim male dominance over women.

They had to sin all the time since the bible never mentions Santa bringing them a single present.

Excellent question and one the ones I asked as an 8 year old that got me EXPELLED from Sunday School BUT only after I was chastised in front of the entire Congregation.

How could they sin if they didn't exist, and there was no god to sin against?

Just one of the Christian conundrums. One of my favorites is labelling some act 'unnatural'. If it's being done, it's natural. And, what about the old chestnut -- "God doesn't make mistakes". So explain to me babies born with horrible deformities; children who starve to death or are trafficked or killed; or any of the terribly cruel things that happen in this world.In the case of Adam and Eve, isn't it a really nasty trick to create something as appealing as possible, make it forbidden, and set it in front of innocents. Is God just the ultimate sadist?

Makes zero sense...
God ( not real) was a sociopath telling Adam and Eve not to touch the fruit on the tree of knowledge...and if they did they would have committed the first sin....lmao...meanwhile logic would be wanting to obtain knowledge ...

That's the problem ? I wanna know who their sons had sex with ! Quiet some busy people they all were

The only reference to an Adam and an Eve comes from an unbelievable document.

Sin? What is sin? One man's "Sin" is another man's holy act.

If you don't believe in religion, or are Christian, the entire question is pointless.

You've heard of Catch-22? Adam and Eve fell for Catch-1.

Your asking the wrong people. If you want to trip people up you ask people who believe in it. My favorite is this
Q: God knows everything right?
A: Yes
Q: so he knows the Future?
A:Yes
Q: With 100% accuracy?
A: Yes
Q: So he knew that Adam and Eve would eat the fruit even if he told them not to there by letting sin into the world?
A: Yes
Q: Then why make the Tree or sin at all?

Fairy tales.

According to the Genesis story, they were instructed by their creator not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But they chose to disregard this command, and immediately thereafter felt a sense of guilt, so the story goes. Bottom line, much like children they knew what they were doing wasn't allowed, but they did it anyway, and they felt awful afterward. In other words, they had knowledge of right and wrong. All of this is, of course, a fable ... but one that is worth discussing.

This is easy. God said "don't" and they did. The hard part was coming up with that talking snake.

Sticking to the biblical text, Adam and Eve's "sin" was disobedience. One way or the other, the tree was the source of "the knowledge of good and evil." It gave humans a conscience. Without knowing right from wrong they were obviously unable to establish that what they did, (disobey God), was wrong. The culpable one in this story was God himself (itself). Being omniscient (all knowing) he knew in advance what the outcome would be. He set the first lady up by placing her in temptation's way. It was a little like placing a bowl of jelly beans in front of your two year old with the unreasonable expectation they could avoid grabbing a fistful. You as a parent would be guilty of setting your child up for a type of test. One you knew they would fail. Then you punish them. Shame on you. This fantasy was written by Moses. He was truly ignorant, judgemental and very misogynistic.

When you go to a movie, you know that it is fiction and it is your job to leave your disbelief at the ticket window. If it is the job of the movie maker to make the plot reasonable enough that you don't inadvertently retrieve your disbelief in the middle of the movie. It would be a gross understatement to say that the bible is deficient in this respect.

IOW --- The bible is so full of holes that it would be laughable if it wasn't so sad.

There are a lot of holes in the whole creation story anyways.

Dude it was a setup. God is all knowing.

They could not sin because such an idea is a fallacy.

what will be god without a "Got Cha".

If Adam and Eve, Adam's second wife, did not eat the apple then their story has no content. Without the apple the story stops.