Ten Logical Questions About Adam, Eve and the Eden Story

I am examining the explanations offered for my questions about Genesis 1–3. My aim is not to appoint myself as a judge, but to distinguish what the text says from later interpretations of what it supposedly means. The questions include what it means for humans to be made in God’s image, how a spirit was described as walking in the garden, why an all-knowing God asked Adam where he was, and whether Adam understood death before being warned about it. I also question why the serpent was allowed to deceive humans and why safeguards appeared only after the disobedience. Other unresolved issues concern the tree of life, pain in childbirth, labour as a curse, the statement that snakes eat dust, and whether all human genetic diversity can come from only two original people. Analogies, insults and declarations that the matter is closed do not directly answer these questions. My central concern is simple: if the outcome in Eden was foreseeable and preventable, why were the humans blamed after the fact? Readers should consider whether the available responses address the actual passages or merely explain them away.

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