The Garden of Eden Story Isn’t About the Fall of Humankind

It’s an origin story, and nothing more

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One of the most important epiphanies I had about the Bible had to do with the garden of Eden.

I was taught that it was the beginning of a great cosmic war between God and Satan, which ended with God sending Jesus…