Thursday, September 22, 2016

Who to blame for Adam and Eve getting kicked out of the garden of Eden


In Genesis two and three we read that Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. They were kicked out because God specifically told Adam, "you are free to eat from any tree in the garden but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for when you eat of it you will surely die."  However then God created Eve, and Eve insisted that they should eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. As they did this and God found out they were banished from the garden and now they started noticing that they were naked when before it was natural. After reading that she did this I thought it was not god's fault that she ate from the tree. She was offered other food from the other trees but she decided to eat it. Like Mr.Reiff said in class. if you haven't eaten in two days and somebody puts food in front of you obviously you will be tempted and you will probably eat it. But if he put my favorite food pizza in front of me but also put other food in front of me I would be able to eat the other food and not be as tempted to eat the pizza. The second situation is like how Adam and Eve are treated. God offered them other fruit from other trees rather than the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. That is why I would blame Eve for getting them kicked out of the Garden.