Sometimes I get a sense that the Bible suggests a strange plan. With Adam and Eve, the snake and the fruit from the tree just a big setup.
Was God really angry at them for eating the fruit, or did they pretty much do what he expected of them?
When he told them not to eat the fruit from that tree, his only warning was that they would die if they did so. Adam and Eve had not experienced death, either spritual or physical, to weigh the threat against, at least it seems that way. Clear, would be "listen, if you eat that fruit, I`ll kick you out of here, women will have hard childbirths...etc"
Instead it`s sort of sneaky, like putting cookies out in front of a couple kids and saying don`t touch these, because you are in the mood for a little child-beating and you know they`ll take some.
Once they ate the fruit, they knew they had done something wrong, they hid from the LORD God and covered up their privates.
So doesn`t this indicate they didn`t know the difference between good and evil UNTIL they ate the fruit? That was the name of the fruit.
I find it frustrating that God wanted them to obey him, while simultaniously not wanting them to even know what was good and what was evil. How do you even choose to obey God without knowing the difference anyway?
Maybe he did want them to know the difference, this being a way to show them.
~ 8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"
10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid." ~
The hiding part is interesting as well. I was taught you can`t hide from God. Is this an example of God humoring the two of them? Already knowing just where they were and just what they did?
Is there a type of christianity that has this kind of take on the Bible?