The meaning of the Bible can be summed up briefly as the vindication of Jehovah God's name through the ransom sacrifice of Christ Jesus.
Why does an all-loving deity require a blood-sacrifice? Is it really a sacrifice if Jesus comes back after two days - isn't that a weekend off?
The tree of the knowledge of good and bad represented, to Adam, Jehovah God's sovereignty.
Until Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, how could you they understand that disobedience was bad? If God really didn't want them eating the fruit, why did he put it were two innocents could reach it? Even if this is true, how does Adam and Eve's transgression justify threatening the rest of humanity throughout history with eternal punishment?
That is, his right, as our creator, to decide for us what was good and what was bad until we, like children, matured to the point where we could do that for ourselves within the parameters of that sovereignty.
As a 'creator' I don't have a right to decide what's good or bad for my children, I have a duty to teach them to decide for themselves what's good or bad. I have a responsibility to myself to try to set them an example, I don't get to lay down blanket rules as some sort of moral dictator.
God created Michael first. Then Michael, as Jehovah's master worker, created everything through Jehovah's Holy Spirit or active force. The first thing that was created was the spiritual heavens. This was followed by the spirit beings, often called angels.
With all these divine beings in the pantheon, how come Judao-Christianity is depicted as a monotheism?
Then the physical heavens, or space as we know it, including Earth, the stars, sun and moon. Then everything on Earth eventually concluding with Adam and Eve.
The sequence depicted in the stories makes no sense in light of what we understand about the origins of the universe, the solar system, the planet and the emergence of life upon it.
Since we inherited sin through Adam then the only man who could pay the price for the blood of Adam, which had been perfect and without sin from the start until he did sin - was the blood of a man who was without sin.
Very little in what you've said so completely destroys the concept of this being a justifiable system as the idea that children who inherit traits from their parents can be somehow 'blamed' or 'punished' for manifesting them - even if those traits are somehow undesirable, you don't punish people for what's inherent in their nature.
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