Gaawa_chan posted...
If you don't have knowledge that disobedience is bad, then you cannot be faulted for being disobedient. And faulting people for being deceived is shitty, too. This applies to both humans in the story, not just the "male."
Meanwhile in the real world if someone's car is stolen, everyone starts screaming "why'd you leave your doors unlocked?!" God set them up to fail and then punished them for it. Why should anyone beg for forgiveness for something somebody else did in ignorance? Sometimes I'm a little baffled that people look at this story and see it as somehow less bizarre or more special than any other weird-ass origin story from any other land.
I consider the Adam and Eve story to be more of a ignorance is bliss. Adam and Eve were ignorant to the ways of the world tell the serpent tricked them. Then once they knew they couldn't unknow and they were thrust out into the world. GOD was upset because it was too early for them and felt they weren't ready but they had to go, they couldn't remain ignorant to the world any longer.
It's like having a child, you want to keep them ignorant of the ways of the world, Santa clause, Easter bunnies, tooth faires, etc. but one day they will have to grow up and face the world. You do everything you can to prepare them for what is to come but sometimes the world reaches them first. Then they are thrust into reality when you feel they are not ready.