The traditional account of Creation and Fall is inconsistent, insofar as it entails the following inconsistent set of propositions.(1) Disobedience to God caused the Fall.
(2) Satan disobeyed God prior to Adam and Eve.
(3) Adam and Eve caused the Fall.
(4) Satan did not cause the Fall.
(5) The first misuse of creaturely freedom caused the Fall.
(6) Only as a result of the Fall, God is now hidden.
The set of (1) through (6) is inconsistent; they cannot all be true. Insofar as the traditional account entails each of (1) through (6), the traditional account is false.
For the purposes of discussion, I have summarized the traditional account below.
Creation and Fall: The Traditional Account
Before creation, there was nothing in the world but God. Until there came a moment when God performed creation, and the universe was born. God spoke, and the universe was born out of nothing. God saw the universe, and said that it was good.
Among the things God created was The Garden. And it was in The Garden that God created human persons. God created human persons to be special, to reflect His own image. God created human persons to be free like Himself, free to choose between Good and Evil. God saw creaturely freedom, and said that it was good.
Adam and Eve were the first human persons in The Garden. Adam and Eve were happy and free in the presence of God.
Happy though they were with their lives in The Garden in the presence of God, one day Adam and Eve chose to do Evil. Adam and Eve were tempted by Satan (a powerful but wicked nonhuman person possessed of creaturely freedom) to disobey God and do Evil. Instead of obeying God's wishes to do Good, Adam and Eve used their freedom to disobey God.
This single human decision of Adam and Eve to disobey God caused The Fall.
The Fall ruined God's creation. God's creatures now must live lives full of pain and suffering and mortality. Adam and Eve were chased out of The Garden, forbidden to return. And not only did Adam and Eve cause life for God's creatures to be full of pain and suffering and mortality. Adam and Eve also caused God to be hidden. Adam and Eve caused God to be chased away.
Because of The Fall, creation contained now Evil as well as Good. The name of this Evil was Sin. Adam and Eve were not the first to choose Sin. Before Adam and Eve, Satan had abused his own freedom and chosen Sin. But it was Adam and Eve's first Sin which caused The Fall. Like Satan before them, Adam and Eve were now unclean from Sin.
The Fall and its effects were irrevocable. All of creation, and every of Adam and Eve's descendants, were ruined and unclean from Sin.
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