Serpent: Hey, what'sssss the deal? You told me to, old man!

I agree. The devil likes us the way we are, and wants us to use our free will. God created us after his image, and demands us to restrain ourselves 24/7 for our whole lifetime. If I were to believe in any of that.

This story isnt realy in the Bible. Eden was paradise for Adam and Eve. They never had a lack of food, and God would never tourure soneone. The serpent was the one who got them to sin, and had them exiled from Eden

Indeed. It seems like when reading the stories you almost have to think of him as the moustache twirling villain who ties damsels to train tracks to actually see him as bad. Even the temptation in the dessert could be seen as a friend giving a pep talk without going into thinking he's evil.

Sure, because drowning the whole world and throwing mountains of fire on people is kindness itself.

Always kind ?!?! You should reread the Old testament. O, and it wasn't the serpent who made them sin. They did that all by themselves.

PLEASE, guys. Do not downvote someone for writing an honest question!

We would not say he is a demon. He gave them one single rule and a garden full of fruit at their disposal. They had no need for clothes because there was no pain, no discomfort, no bad anything until they broke that single rule and caused the Fall.

A demon is a bad angel. God created the angels. Also, the entire point of the Old Testament is that spiritual death is truly worse than physical death. All those rules and sacrifices, most of which become invalid once Christ enters the picture, were meant to discourage the chosen people from worshiping those things instead of the one true God. Kinda difficult to truly worship an animal when you're obligated to kill it at least several times per year.

The Christian god is a sadist.

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He really is. It's horrific. I don't want to knock Christianity, but I think even most Christians would agree that their god is a demon.

The story is primarily theological and symbolic. The only historical basis is the biology that all humans came from one man and one woman and that they let evil enter creation at some point shortly after their creation. Please refrain from using "BS" regarding Scripture.

After all this, yeah, yeah, the two humans and the serpent get punished and banished. But the nakedness? The two tried sewing on leaves, but...come on, that's weak sauce. So what had to happen? God had to kill and skin an animal to clothe the two (read b/w the lines...where else would the skins come from?). Sure, God created the animal and could take it out whenever (because he's God, hence why it's not evil for him), but the lesser evil (prematurely killing an animal) had to be done to prevent a greater evil (the male and the female lusting after each other, placing reason subordinate to bad emotions). Humanity now had to struggle against nature to live, and nature (in response to humanity's fall) no longer was going to just listen and cower at humanity's feet (e.g., natural disasters, the smallest microbe could take down the greatest ruler, you name it).