Why did god punish adam and eve for disobeying him and eating the fruit? [Spirituality & Religion]

It's a myth.

If you analyse history people in the antiquity had a somewhat similar anecdote.


Prometheus en Epimetheus for example had a box that contained all the problems in the world.
Prometheus' wife Pandora opened the box ( that's where the saying '' opening the box of Pandora '' comes from ) and all the problems of the world came out of the box.

In all these stories a woman is always portrayed as the sinner.

Religion and mythology were invented to keep the simple poor people quiet. It was the rich who invented these stories to scare the poor into obedience.
In this case to make women obey and behave graciously and to serve the men like they wanted.

Does one need to know good and evil to obey? When one tells their child not to touch a hot stove does that child have to know the mechanics of hot and cold? No. It obeys because its parent told it not to do it. However, if the child disobeys and gets burned is it because the child didn't know physics? Is it the fault of the parent because they told the child the stove was hot? No. The child got burned because it didn't head its parent's warning.

BTW, the original myth is not about apples, but a fragant fruit, apricots or oranges, more likely. I guess the idea is that of temptations, sensuality, pleasure.

It's about power. Male power.

That's good point 🤔

The snake...

Another mystery, like death came into the world because of this unforgivable deed so everything must died.what an evil deity.

Because God told them not to.
So this obeying thing was a thing i guess

That was just a pretext... God and Noah needed the plot to build the Ark..

Wasn't that where the phrase "forbidden fruit" came from?

I'm just saying, he knew what would happen.