The subtext of Adam & Eve is painfully obvious...?

Yes, but I read somewhere that the story was originally a warning about carnal knowledge & the trouser snake. Interesting how it evolved into a commercial for the masses staying ignorant.

1) The subtext of Adam & Eve is painfully obvious...?

Then why have you so clearly missed it?

2) The forbidden fruit wasn't just placed on any old tree in the Garden of Eden - it was placed on the Tree of Knowledge.

Inaccurate claim. The forbidden fruit was not "placed" anywhere according to the Bible. The forbidden fruit - according to the Bible - was the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, NOT the tree of knowledge.

3) In other words, the 'fall of man' was caused entirely by our natural desire for knowledge and understanding.

Absurd claim from someone who clearly has not bothered to read the very short story before making such claims.

4) If the fruit was placed on the Tree of Getting Poked In The Eye, there's no way Adam and Eve would've gone anywhere near it.

I disagree wholeheartedly. The entire point of the story is that Adam and Eve *wanted* to do the forbidden thing, and that they chose to do so *despite* consequences far more serious than an eye-poking.

- Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/

Not just the tree of knowledge but The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

The tree of knowledge is a metaphor for humans evolving sentience, the knowledge of good and evil being something unique to sentient beings

This happened as our cranial size increased in capacity, hence childbirth becoming painful, we also started to wear clothes.

truthfully it talks of greater effective than the two yet additionally Jewish custom holds that they had many greater (i think of 26) little young ones. And confident, given the Biblical determination. the international is inbred, truthfully genetically many might argue that there became one 'mom' or Eve (in spite of in the event that they don't have self belief in Genesis. With a acceptable genetic makeup, problems does no longer take place, so as that leaves those with a ethical situation. some thing which became presented some distance later in the Bible as incorrect through entropy in the genetic and social structures.

" The entire point of the story is that Adam and Eve *wanted* to do the forbidden thing"

Well, before eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, how were they supposed to know that it's a bad thing to disobey God? They had no concept of it and couldn't know any better.

Before that, they had been deterred from eating from it by the threat of death, not any moral considerations.

That's actually not it at all. The "Tree of knowledge" as you call it is actually "The tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Feel free to look it up.

"Knowledge" and the "knowledge of good and evil" are two very, very different things. The story is an allegory describing humanity's fall from innocence to beings who know how to do evil and who do, in fact, choose to do evil.

That was the first test of free will. The Garden of Eden is where we evolved into man/woman. The story of Cain and Able is also a metaphor for our transition to civilization. (not that what Cain did was very civilized)

With all due respect, you have made the classic mistake of misinterpreting the name of the tree.

The tree would impart no particular knowledge to anyone.

It was not a magical tree.

The tree was given such a title because if Adam ate of it (or not) knowledge would be made clear as to whether or not Adam was faithful, or disobediant.

Thanks to that tree, we have the knowledge that Adam preferred disobediance and we understand it was a poor choice.

And one point of the tale is glaringly obvious, but seems to be largely ignored.

A&E ran around the Garden naked all of the time, and the god in the tale had no problem with it.

The deity only got mad at them when they had "covered themselves with fig leaves."

Therefore; the god prefers humans to run around naked all of the time.