Genesis 3:17-19

Adam disobeyed the Lord and was punished for his sins of disobedience and eating the forbidden fruit. The following verses from Genesis depict Yahweh;s judgment passed upon Adam for his trangressions (from my 1970 The New American Bible): "To the man he said: 'Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat, 'Cursed be the ground because of you! In toil shall you eat its yield all the days of your life. Thorns and thistles shall bring it forth to you, as you eat of the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face shall you get bread to eat, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dirt, and to dirt you shall return.' God holds Adam accountable: he was supposed to lead the family and be in charge of his wife, but he allowed himself to be convinced by her to eat the forbidden fruit, and God does not go easy on him for allowing himself to be manipulated, thought for, steered, ill-advised, tempted and then to succumb to the temptation from the serpent, seeking to corrupt all humankind by taking out the leader, working to seduce and corrupt him through the conduit of his wife, and it worked. God is angry with Adam, and divine justice is visited upon him. God cursed the ground of the earth so that humans now had to work and work hard to grow food, find shelter, and make a living. Now cast out of the Garden of Eden, they have to scramble to eke out a living, stay warm and not starve. Now they must work all the time just to make it. Thorns, thistle, pain, sickness, mosquitoes and flies inflict disease and hurt upon suffering humanity from thence forward. Mortality is now the human lot. Yet, I cannot but wonder if the Fall of Man was not intended deliberately by God to lead the the Rise of Man. As mortals, suffering natural afflctions and malevolence, struggling on earth to make a living, and to build an ethical and religious success, humans now are awake, alert tuned-in cratures with free agency. I believe to have the chance to make something of oneself, to make the world just a smidgeon better, to serve God and others in some modest way, these are real, positive, meaningful gifts that the individuator can give back to others, society and eventually up to God Deself, and it is a wonderful existential responsibility and opportunity. Let me quote the same verses from the Holy Bible (King James Version): "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thous shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou shall eat of it all the days of your life. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it was thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." The earth that was, before the Fall, heaen on earth, provided for their every need effortlessly; but now that the original sin was their heritage, Adam and Eve, and all their offspring going forward, were now biological creatures living on a mere, planet, hospitable to life. There they would struggle to make a living and survive, their, humans (half mortal beast and half immortal angel). Humans must work, suffer and die from then on, and that seems to be a blessing more than a curse.