More specifically - the god of the desert did it. Adding the “desert” part keeps him within the complete pantheon, along with Zeus and Odin, Tlaloc and Kukulkán.
Some religious folks knocked on my door and asked me if I knew random Bible trivia, and why we as society wasn’t thinking about why Bible Guy 1 did Random Thing here.
Just what? Bro the Bible doesn’t live rent free in my head and your religious fanfiction doesn’t help me pay rent.
If you ever get people at your house asking questions like that again, and you’re are feeling spicy you can try my method.
I’ve had luck with asking “Jesus died so everyone’s sins can be forgiven right?” then they usually say yes. Then I ask “then why weren’t Eve’s sins forgiven?”
They usually look confused and ask what I mean. I respond with “well, if pain in childbirth is punishment for Eve’s sin of eating the apple… and Jesus died to have all our sins forgiven…why is childbirth still painful? Did God not forgive Eve?”
Sometimes they fall back on God is mysterious or whatever, of course he forgave Eve…blah blah blah… but they never come back to my house. And I always hope I made them think a little harder about the bible and it’s inconsistent nature. Even if they never admit it outwardly.
Just reread Genesis 2 and 3. There’s no mention of childbirth until then and she isn’t even named Eve until then and partly because she would become a mother. I believe a fair interpretation is that childbirth is inherently painful and that the two didn’t even know about concepts like sex before eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. There’s no evidence to suggest that from a biblical perspective childbirth would’ve been painfree had there been no original sin, though there is evidence to suggest there would’ve been no childbirth at all without it.
It was made up thousands of years ago by desert nomads. That’s the answer.
If you want an in-universe one, that’s easy - god did it.
More specifically - the god of the desert did it. Adding the “desert” part keeps him within the complete pantheon, along with Zeus and Odin, Tlaloc and Kukulkán.
Some religious folks knocked on my door and asked me if I knew random Bible trivia, and why we as society wasn’t thinking about why Bible Guy 1 did Random Thing here.
Just what? Bro the Bible doesn’t live rent free in my head and your religious fanfiction doesn’t help me pay rent.
If you ever get people at your house asking questions like that again, and you’re are feeling spicy you can try my method.
I’ve had luck with asking “Jesus died so everyone’s sins can be forgiven right?” then they usually say yes. Then I ask “then why weren’t Eve’s sins forgiven?”
They usually look confused and ask what I mean. I respond with “well, if pain in childbirth is punishment for Eve’s sin of eating the apple… and Jesus died to have all our sins forgiven…why is childbirth still painful? Did God not forgive Eve?”
Sometimes they fall back on God is mysterious or whatever, of course he forgave Eve…blah blah blah… but they never come back to my house. And I always hope I made them think a little harder about the bible and it’s inconsistent nature. Even if they never admit it outwardly.
Just reread Genesis 2 and 3. There’s no mention of childbirth until then and she isn’t even named Eve until then and partly because she would become a mother. I believe a fair interpretation is that childbirth is inherently painful and that the two didn’t even know about concepts like sex before eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. There’s no evidence to suggest that from a biblical perspective childbirth would’ve been painfree had there been no original sin, though there is evidence to suggest there would’ve been no childbirth at all without it.