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A chat on 4chan
human
The fruit was the first test of free will.

God made it so that he did not control whether or not Adam or Eve could/would eat the fruit.

It is a story of God's first ability test for them self.

'Can God make a paper bag so big even God can't get out of it?'

It was the first thing God did, in regards to other sentient beings, to grant them a will separate from their own.

That's the metaphor, because obviously the events as recorded in the Bible are highly humanized, and thus presented with a bias of minds unable to comprehend the magnitude of the actual occurrences.

These actions implied something to God though, and are one of the primary motivators for God's potential absence in modern day to day situations.

If you want to know the full scope of the story, remember these three words after you die the first time.

Blue Eisenhower November
gpt
This is actually a very decent and interesting approach