THE CURSE IN EDEN: This "curse" is a triple-plated damnation against the serpent,the woman and the man. It is worth the while to pause a moment to dissect it,curse by curse, as set out in Gen.3..THE SNAKE CURSE" Yahveh Elohim said unto the serpent;because thou hast done this,(1) thou art cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field;(2) upon thy belly shalt thou go,and dust shall thou eat all the of thy life;(3) and I will put enmity between thee and the women,and between thy seed and her seed,(4) it shall bruise thy head,and thou shall bruise his heel.(Gen.3:14-15).Seen the serpent naturally goes around on its belly anyhow,one may wonder where is the point in cursing him to continue to "wriggle in and wriggle out"as usual;and as to eating dust for a steady diet,this must be a mistake,for snakes are not known to eat dust,but they are known to eat birds and rabbits,rats and other snakes. We shall consider the words"enmity between thee and the woman" and "thy seed" when we have noticed the other curses in their order..THE CURSE ON THE WOMAN: Unto the woman he said(1) I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception;(2) in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;(3) and thy desire shall be unto thy husband,and he shall rule over thee.( Gen.3:16).Here the choleric Yahveh simply inflicts poor Eve in her own single person with the increased pangs in child-birth and a multiplications of sorrows,which would do no credit to any kind of loving God.Also,this curse on woman was evidently limited to Eve alone; and there is no justice or reason in claiming,as some expositors insist,that Yahveh cursed all women for the simple act of one woman,any more than he did all serpents.The whole curse against Eve was really pain and sorrow in giving life,not eternal damnation after death.THE CURSE ON MAN: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,thou shalt not eat of it(1) cursed is the ground for thy sake;(2) in sorrow shalt thou eat (of) it all the days of thy life;(3) thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee;(4) and thou shall it the herbs of the field;(5) in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,till thou return unto the ground;for out of it wast thou taken;for dust thou art,and unto dust shalt thou return,(Gen.3:17-19).This is every single solitary item of the fearful "curse on man", it is no curse upon Adam(man) at all,except the one item of having to work for an honest living; all the rest of the "curse" is upon the harmless and helpless earth. There is not one word in record of sin or death or damnation as a penalty against Adam himself, much less against his posterity and all humanity. So the "curse' is been to be quite innocuous; and I pledge my word of honor that there is not another word nor the remotest allusion in all the Hebrew Bible to the whole incident of the garden and the snake. The Old Testament is as silent as Sheol(the grave) about any pretended"original sin,curse or fall"and of eternal damnation on account of that or anything else..IS IT GOD'S WORD???