- Create Garden of Eden
(Good)
- Create humans
(Good)
-Do not give humans morals, knowledge, willpower or sense of perspective
(Get around to it later?)
- Create fruit that grants knowledge and fruit that grants divinity in the Garden, but must never be eaten
()
- Create snake in the garden that exists to guide naive humans into eating forbidden fruit
()
- Leave the Garden and disavow all control and knowledge of what is about to happen
()
- Cast out humans to slowly die
(Why not?)
Those main three are giving me the most trouble right now.
If there is an Abrahamic god, the transition makes perfect sense, IMHO.
When created, man was more than a beast, but not much more. Some language, morals definitely under construction = Early childhood.
Eating the fruit of the tree at the urgings of the serpent = young adults + peer pressure + puberty + sex / drugs
Being kicked out of the garden and being responsible for your own self = Adult child that needs to get out because they won't live by parental rules.
1) Remember that if the Abrahamic God is an omniscient and all powerful being, it is fully aware of your entire life from birth to death.
2) IF the Abrahamic god does exist and chooses not to prove that existence, it's most certainly on purpose. Why? Think about the difference between faith worship and worship of power. Parallels can be seen in this world easily. There are people who gravitate towards ideals and charity, and those that gravitate towards power and wealth. If an Abrahamic god exists and is known to exist, it is absolutely certain that there would be at least as many beggars and demanders as there would be faithful worshippers. Omniscient and all powerful says *nothing* about temper, and if the books of the Abrahamic faith have any truth in them, the Abrahamic god can get a bit grumpy at times. It might be that by locking himself away from certain knowledge if him, he avoids that which he knows will eventually anger him.