the snake was not to blame
eve was not to blame
God told adam not to eat the apple
God did not tell eve nor did He tell the snake not to eat the apple
and everything was still okay when eve bit the apple
it was only when adam bit the apple that it all went pear shape
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It was a trick to get rid of Adam. A plan God had from day one, when he realized that Adam was a faulty design.
So God made sure that Adam could not know right from wrong unless he ate from the fruit of the tree. But then he ate and knew he had done wrong, it was too late already. This was a brilliant legal maneuver that won God the admiration of many for generation to come.
The second best maneuver of the sort was catch 22, but many argue that God’s was better as it had a touch of cruelty to it, while catch 22 had more of a flavour of stupidity. The polls are still open though