Post by gadreel on Jun 19, 2019 20:54:39 GMT
It should be noted though that there are parts of the bible that are not fantastically verbose, Genesis is certainly one of them. Bear in mind there was no death at all in the garden of eden, it reasonable to assume that Eve might surmise that eating would bring death into the world. I guess at the end of the day we dont really know what happened in the time in the garden, but the general gist of the story is recorded.
I accept the story is flawed, but what I dont accept is that it is a tale of teh evils menfolk destroying women.
Well, let's be generous and suppose that God told Eve that all her unborn descendants will suffer the same consequence for her action.
Would that make it any less unfair to punish the children for the crime of the parents?
Yeah I dont agree with the punish children for their parents mistakes,but as I said in the other comment, this is not a documentary story, this is a story that tries to explain our observed fallen state after the fact. I personally dont think the garden of eden narrative is very good in terms of explaining original sin, I think that there are a number of flaws, but it is the story we have and my railing is really against the claim that poor widdle eve was tricked by the nasty men (including God who is some how a man) into being the scapegoat for everything.
Was the church guilty of sexism, yes 100%, was this story often used as a tool to promote sexism, absolutely, but in the enlightened age we are in now, we can see more clearly that this is simply two people, one of whom did what they were warned was a terrible idea.