We Cant Blame Women For Everything.

belief that Eve sinned when she ate from the tree of knowledge and therefore burdened the

rest of humankind with sin and evil. Many people throughout the world believe that the

myths of their cultures blame the first man or woman for the expulsion from paradise and

the origin of evil in the world. However, if one reads the Judeo-Christian, Greek and

Iranian myths of creation closely, one will find that in no case is mankind responsible for

In Genesis, Adam and Eve are told by God not to eat from the tree of knowledge

of good and evil, for if they do they will die. In no way did God command them not to eat

from the tree. There was no official prohibition of the tree that was issued. God simply

told them not to eat from the tree because “in the day that you eat from the of knowledge

of good and evil you shall surely die”(Genesis 2:17). The author Thomas Mann wrote

that Eve sinned against herself “but not against God in the sense of offending any

prohibition of His...for such a prohibition, at least according to the doctrine we have

received, was not issued.” It is for this reason that one can

place blame upon women for the evil in the world. Many times, the myths confuse cause

never questions the serpent. She only “saw that the tree was good for food, and that it

However, this belief is not justified. Zeus ordered the creation of Pandora in order to

than men.” It is at this point that the stories do justice to women in mythology. The

suffering through the creation of Pandora, and had every intention to “give them in

example, God had every intention of man becoming knowledgeable of good and evil. If he

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