The Amusing Bible

Another consideration, which just logically unfolds is that apparently, God had an ulterior motive, and he was eventually glad for the fall of man. Basically, the man had the right to tell him:
—My dear Daddy-God! If I am not mistaken, the good is what you like and what is morally good, and the bad, on the contrary, is all that is bad and all that you do not like. Is it like that or not?
—That is right, my son, would have answered the Creator.
—In this case, could continue Adam, —let me know what is wrong, so that I could avoid it. Otherwise, why is this tree here, if I cannot touch it?

However, instead of God, the priests concealing themselves under his name give answers.

They say, God put our newborn humanity to a test. God wanted to see if Adam would obey, when he requires minor hardships from him.

However, this statement is easily disproved. According to theological imaginations, God is all-knowing and he knows the future. Therefore, he should have foreseen what would happen, because nothing is done without his will. This means that God himself wanted the people – whom he created – to sin. There is no doubt in that.

As the story rolls along, the whole thing is really turning against God. Let’s quote the Book of Genesis:
—Now the serpent was the most crafty of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made, and the serpent said to the woman, Wherefore has God said, ‘Eat not of every tree of the garden?’ And the woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ (Gn 3: 1b-3) (LXX2012)
—And the serpent said to the woman, ‘You shall not surely die. For God knew that in whatever day you should eat of it your eyes would be opened, and you would be as gods, knowing good and evil.’ And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate. (Gn 3: 4-6) (LXX2012)

The most striking part of this story is that the author presents the conversation of the snake with the woman. The fact that the snake speaks the language of our ancestors is not depicted as something supernatural, miraculous, or even allegorical. Genesis just portrays this snake as a regular snake. This cunning and tempting reptile becomes the tempter of women, who explains himself with such an ease that any philanderer who uses the gullibility of naive simpletons would envy.

In the Bible, the snake is described so naturally that Christian theologians, viewing this version as implausible, found it necessary to amend the biblical tale. However, their amendment changes all that is contained in the Book of Genesis in this regard and in fact directly contradicts the Bible. Following their corrections – which are at once tricky and pious – the devil took the form of a snake and seduced Adam’s wife. Therefore, theologians turned the argument this way and they still teach that today.

This interpretation is just a fraudulent version of Genesis. First, there is not even a single word in the original text that gives you a reason to interpret it like that. Second, only two Old Testament authors mention the devil – one in the Book of Job and the other in the Book of Tobit.

In Job, the author says that one beautiful day in heaven the devil was betting with God. A darker tale in Tobit presents a certain serial-killing demon, called Asmodeus, who fell in love with a certain Sarah and repeatedly spoiled her wedding night – seven times over – by strangling her new husband to death before he could touch her.

The rest of the books of the Bible don’t mention Satan-Lucifer, whom churchmen remember whenever they need to add a little more spice and interest to their religious legends.

On the other hand, some cheerful commentators, philosophers, and skeptics, in pursuit of a few frivolous characters, see the famous Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad in the form of an Apple Tree. And they suggest that the meaning of the whole episode was to give Ms. Adam, who hasn’t tasted love yet, her first love-lesson from her devil-seducer, who appeared as a snake.