Amos

Kind Bud, my first point is that not Lord God but God "said." In other words, God created the essence of existence and his audience was the reader who is co-creator with God.

Lord God does not come into the picture until Gen.2 because it was Lord God who formed that which God created when God said "let's cause this and that." In other words, Lord God in Gen.2 formed the existence according to the created essence of Gen.1

In Gen.3 "like god" was created which is an identity of its own and because of this added identity the man was banned from Eden. Notice also that he was banned from Eden by Lord God after the curse that was made by Lord God and not by God which in turn is why the second identity was never formed and the curse is therefore outside of the jurisprudence of God.

The two trees were placed in the garden by God (not Lord God), and God had told the woman that they may eat from the trees in the garden but if they ate from the TOK the result will be that rational comprehension of death will become part of their knowledge.

Nowhere does it talk about an undesired outcome and to prove this God had already created a plan of salvation in Gen.1 where on each day "evening came and morning followed," except on the seventh day when evening did not follow the day (by inference). To arrive in the seventh day is to come full circle and linger in the fullness of light that was created on the first day in Gen.1.

In Gen.2.10-14 this plan is "formed" with to four rivers that divide and return to one river called the Euphrates (eu=bright and phrates= mind), to indicate that the fall and redemption of man take place in our mind only. It is because of the confusion in our mind with regard to our own identity that we punish ourselves. As Dostoevski said in Karamazov "my whole life I punish myself, my whole life I punish."

Bobby

Amos:
LORD GOD is one of the LORD's many names. What is your religion?

Amos

Yes I know Bobby but it is always distinct from God.

I am a Catholic.