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The problem I have with the whole Garden of Eden myth is the persceptive that god, portrayed as a seperate entity from humanity, doles out an arbritary judgement. Where is the tolerance, forgivness, and compassion in this judgement?
Heres a strange notion that may irritate some christians.
The whole story makes alot more sense if the roles of god and satan were played as physical beings, rather than spiritual. Of course such an outlandish theory basicly demonizes and destroys the foundations of Christianity. To think in a time not too far past I could have been burnt at the stake for even hypothosizing such a notion. God, a physical entity, like a human? Well if the "god" was limited by a human-like perspective, he is certainly is capable of such a course of error. And that would explain why he has to compete with "satan", not just vanquish him out of hand, in an omnipotent way.
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