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.
I don't think it necessarily has to be interpreted as only a curse, even though that's the explicit wording of it.
It's kind of like becoming an adult. You learn stuff and grow and eventually there's no point in staying at your parent's house eating cheerios and playing with blocks.
Adam and Eve learned and became conscious without God wanting it really, but once it happened then there was no point in staying in Eden. Especially since it's a paradise with immortality that we probably would fuck up anyways.
If God wanted to he could've just burnt down the garden of Eden. Not sure why he didn't just do that.
But also old testament God is kind of a dick so this might be too generous of an interpretation.