Hi everyone, if I may I would like to ask a question about possible progressive interpretations of the events during the beginning of Genesis?
I am confused as to why God was angry enough at Adam and Eve for eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge and gaining knowledge of good and evil to sentence them to lives of suffering? It seems really unfair to me on a surface level so I am curious as to what this means in the context of Christian history and struggle against the romans, for instance.
The best way to understand it imo is that the characterization of God has been changing for a long time. The God of the Israelites was revised a couple times by different authors, and ended up as a series of remnants of other amalgamated gods.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=mdKst8zeh-U
Also, it's just a creation myth, no need to take it at face value.