There is a way of reading Genesis that treats it as a just-so story, approaching it primarily as a narrative that is meant to explain how the week came to have seven days, why the humans wear clothes, or, supposedly, how the snake lost his legs.
This is a very bad way to read Genesis (or any part of Scripture), as it risks over-simplifying the text. In treating it as a children’s story, the reader only ever leaves with the very conclusions that were folded away in the suitcase of expectations with which he entered.
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