iow you ate the fruit yourself

contemplate adam and eve as yourself, divided into two parts

Guilt by association and lineage. Very Islamic.

Because God is a dick?

In Judaism children can’t inherit the sins of their parents.
Just one of a massive list of things Christians fucked up, and another thing they get wrong is thinking they know Jack about Judaism because the Old Testament is in the Christian Bible.
I’ve been embarrassed as a Christian in the past listening to dumb ass Christians arguing with Jews about what their religion believes.
Jews also believe in reincarnation.
I don’t believe any of it now, except I have full faith in the ignorance of evangelicals.

Questions often frame their own answers. Why do you feel the need to pose this particular question?

While innocents usually pay the ultimate price for war, earthquakes, and greed, how does society seek to address this inequity?

That’s a great question. My take on it is that, as with all religious mythology, Adam and Eve are symbolic figures. They represent early humans. The “sin” they committed was evolving a brain large and complex enough to produce abstract and symbolic thinking.

With such self-awareness, as the story goes, they recognized their nakedness. So this looks very much like a story about the evolution of humans from our animal pre-history through the development of civilization.

The consequence of eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge was to be expelled from the Garden where food could be hunted and gathered, to a world where their descendants (us) would have to toil in fields, and factories, and cubicles for their groceries.

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