re: #177 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I think the idea was only YHWH and his assorted fellow gods of the time knew what was good and what was evil, and like an overprotective parent he wanted to keep Adam and Eve sheltered from the bad stuff for reasons. If A&E knew about G&E, then they’d be like the gods, or something.

Really, the story is pretty stupid. Every parent knows telling a kid “Don’t do that!” guarantees the kid will try at least once. Either God was a clueless, helicopter parent, or he was setting the kids up for a fall (heh heh) from the start.

It still doesn’t make sense to me. There were other humans —they just lived outside the Garden —yes?

It’s a stupid story made-up by men, for men as a means to gain and keep power.