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.
Don't forget, there are two different conflicting creation myths at the beginning of Genesis, and this one is the newer one. Its context is the establishment of the unified and written Jewish religion, which is long predated by the oral traditions that originally made up the Torah.