I'll investigate what a serpent is later, but whatever a serpent is, should it be talking?

Adam must have told her.

Adam must have added the touching bit when telling Eve but I suppose it's fair precaution. He did fail to tell her that God said that "in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" not that you will die some time in the future, but in that very day.

The serpent has a contrary opinion, let's see where this goes

The serpent is now saying that if they eat the fruit they will be "as gods". Interesting on two counts: 1 is that gods is plural I think at this point it is useless to deny that God has some friends and 2 the serpent is making the claim that the humans can become godlike. Will any of the gods confirm this claim?

OK, let the feast begin. 24 hours until both members of the human race die without progeny and counting.

The tree's fruit gave them knowledge of good and evil. Are their bodies evil and need to be covered? I'm wondering what this ashamedness has to do with knowing good and evil.

The LORD God walks about, truly Adam was created in his image, it seems also it is possible to hide from The LORD God

...to the extent that he has to ask where Adam is.

Alrighty then, I'm guessing God was singing to himself or something.

...More importantly, who told them that they should be ashamed of being naked?

...It wasn't me Lord it was her...

...It wasn't me Lord it was the serpent...

So is the punishment that the serpent shall go on his belly? Did god create it with legs and then take them away? It must have had a lot of legs, serpents have really long bodies.

I think someone is getting kicked in the head here but I'm not sure who, It reads like perhaps Adam is kicking Eve in the head?

Child-birth is a punishment from God? I thought he said that they'd die the day they ate the fruit, when is Eve supposed to bear children if she's to die really soon?

His punishment is to eat food made from crops?

This doesn't seem like a great punishment. I thought God promised Adam death The very day he ate the fruit. God lied and the serpent was telling the truth.

Bread is a punishment? I like bread.

Good good.

What a nice guy. Did the animals complain? I'm guessing they are all able to talk just like the serpent. Perhaps God put them into a deep sleep like he did with Adam before performing surgery.

Oh wow! The serpent really was telling the truth. The LORD God (one of the many gods) says to the rest of the gods, Look at this, the man I made is now as one of us. Adam is godlike! I suspect Eve is too since she also ate the fruit.

So God is a god, the gods he speaks to are gods and Adam and Eve are also gods. This is a good start.

I guess God doesn't want a god to tend his garden.

So many things in this line. What is a cherubim? has God just created them along with the concept of fire and swords?

God Lied to Adam about the nature of the fruit.

The serpent is a bit of a hero here, not only does he tell Eve the truth but he leaves it up to her whether she should eat it.

As retribution for calling his bluff God 'punishes' Eve by allowing her to have children and 'punishes' Adam by giving him some land to work (he was already gardening in Eden so at least he has some experience) and by adding vegetables and bread to his diet.

Adam and Eve are now like all the other gods (Yay)

God invents fire and swords and Cherubim to guard Eden from the newly god-like Adam and Eve.

Corrections.

Never afraid to admit to have read something incorrectly. I've read the thing again and it seems that God made two special trees, not only the 'tree of knowledge of good and evil' but also 'The tree of life' mentioned in line 22.





It seems as though the fruit of this second tree is necessary to become a fully fledged god but god threw Adam and Eve out before they got a chance to eat from it. So in my what have we learned bit, it should read:

Adam and Eve are now like all the other gods (Yay) but they don't get to live for ever because they didn't eat from the tree of life. God doesn't like sharing.

Genesis 3.What we have Learned:-