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The snake did it
(slrpnk.net)
Context: I sometimes hear the argument that god explicitly told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit, the same way a parent tells its child not to stick things or touch electrical outlets. So god forcing the two of them to have children and dooming every human ever since is perfectly justified.
It's even stupider than that.
The tree was not, as is commonly thought, the tree of knowledge.
It was the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
So God tells them not to eat the fruit, but doesn't give them a sense of right and wrong. Why would they even know that they had to obey him?
Then they eat the fruit, which they didn't know was a bad thing to do, and get punished for it.
It would be like leaving a steak in the room with a dog, saying, "if you eat this, you're a bad dog," then coming back and punishing the dog for eating the steak.