Why Did God Put the Stupid Tree in the Garden of Eden?

Clearly, it’s all God’s fault.

mage by Jeff Jacobs from Pixabay

The Biblical creation story concerning Adam and Eve was on high rotation in my Sunday School curriculum when I was growing up. It felt like we covered it every year — maybe even more — just to make sure that we kids, from our earliest days, were deeply ingrained with the Christian explanation of the origins of the world…