>>61329447there is no justification for any of this in the actual text itself; in the actual way it's worded it never even says Yahweh makes the tree of knowledge and the other one of immortality himself (Genesis 1 and 2's creation accounts are contradictory btw)
it also never says anything about free will or that Yahweh knew anything beforehand
the actual explanation is just that it's plagiarized from the Babylonians because in the epic of Gilgamesh, the herb of immortality is a thing that Gil also loses to a fucking snake (that's why snakes shed their skin btw because Babylonians thought this was them regenerating their lifespan)
also humans are made from clay in Sumerian mythology just like Adam and Eve and there is also a garden of the gods with magic fruit trees where the gods hang out just like in the bible
At the point when Genesis was written, Yahweh wasn't an all powerful 'one god' yet in the canon and all the new testament shit about the grand plan, free will, satan, being redeemed from sin etc is all just a posthoc retcon when the theology had changed after hundreds of years from the dollar store jew knockoff of babylonian and canaanite myth it started out as
