Reply #1: The reviewer is wrong about one thing

[Warpy]

God is the one who lied. The serpent told them the truth, that they could eat that fruit and they wouldn't die, they'd just increase their knowledge base. It was god who said eating it was fatal. The liar.

God also didn't seem that put out when Eve tried it. After all, I guess women can handle that stuff. However, when Adam did, he got all pissy and evicted them, even with that wimp Adam whining and crying that it was all her fault.

It has always seemed to me that Adam and Eve were pets created just for that occasion, that the rest of us were already here (male and female created he them, for more tortured prose) and what kind of god does that when he's got a planet full of other specimens to observe?

Only when you look at that book as a collection of tall tales passed on by traveling merchants in exchange for more wine at the tavern does any of it begin to make sense. As a mythic history of the region, it's a great read.

As a guide for ones life? Oh, please.