Reading through all this reminds me topically of the Taliban.
How have we managed to continue to credit such beliefs as being in any way valid?
Look out of the window.

Good point.
The serpent is shown as female. This is important to the Christian misogyny.

Her function in the story seems to be to help Eve and Adam realize that eternal life without the knowledge in the tree of knowledge, is not worth living.

Jews call that Original Virtue and our elevation, whereas the Christians call it a fall and Original Sin.

Even as they sing of Adam's sin being a happy fault and nrcessary to god's great plan.

No sin would have derailed god's plan.

Christianity stole the story but not the moral of the story, which they reversed.

Regards
DL

Adam, spelled with a lower case, which is how Jews write, means tribe or nation. adam represents all men and Eve all women.
As universal parents, A & E are good examples as they show that life without knowledge is not the best choice.
No fairy tale has ever created the harm to society than the Eden fairy tale has.

Regards
DL

Nice presentation. Thanks.
I agree that Christianity reversed the moral of the story from the Jewish Original Virtue and man's elevation to the fall and Original Sin.

Most Christians are not aware of this and do not question why they created a false guilt for man and failure for both man and god.

Regards
DL

En.ki/Yaldaboath utterly hates his mother (Sophia) and therefore the original "sin" was put on Eve. There was no sin in the first place but being the chief creator he is also head of the patriarchal regime. He in fact sinned against the aeons, all the immortal ones himself when he told his angels (different star races to whom most are rebelling Orions) "I am God and there is no other God than me" from that point they all kept their eye on him.
"You are wrong Samael (God of the blind) for there is a God higher than you and he is the son of man" Immediately a human figure appeared and they were all blinded by his light.

When En.ki/Lucifer created the first physical human body a long time ago it was not animated and did not have a soul. Fearing that the true spirited human would enter his fashioned body he left Adam alone. After 40 days Sophia blew her breath into Adam and he could move around but couldn't fully stand up.

The Authorities saw this and they were disturbed and 7 archangels descended to see what was going on. They asked "The breath within you, who was he and whence he came"? Adam answered them "I came through the power of the human for the destruction of your work" When he said this they praised him because he had given them a day of rest for they're imposiousness. They saw how helpless Adam was and they celebrated before returning to their respective dimensions/heavens.

The Orions anticipated that The Overlords would created they're own version of humans in ignorance. Sophia had already long created her human first so the plan was for the spirited humans to enter Yaldaboaths fashioned bodies made of atoms and lighten up the construct from within and the fashioned bodies would be fences for the light!

Christianity has caused a lot of harm and still is causing harm, IMHO.

It's not only in Christianity.
Islam teaches its followers that women will form the majority of the people of Hell.

How can people believe such a thing, it's ridiculous.

Maybe this is why A & E nowadays stands for Accident and Emergency! :smile:

Peace

Other religions have caused thee share of harm in the past and present. No need to blame Christianity for all the woes in the World.