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Well, just don't take any of it literally. If you did, you have to bump up against some major inconsistencies, which start on or about page 3:

God is all-powerful, all-knowing and omniscient, and has a propensity to forecast the fact that there will be false prophets and to see the future (it's all over both the Old and New Testament in the form of prophecies). But somehow, his foresight failed him when he put Adam and Eve in the Garden and told them "don't eat that fruit". Either God is asleep at the wheel or He willingly tempted Adam and Eve knowing they would fail the test.

And the Serpent is the bad guy?

This inconsistency is argued away by the "Free WIll of Mankind" school as man's failing, not God's.

This same,perfect, all-powerful God then creates Adam a wife. Her name is Lilith. She turns out to be an absolute cast-iron, power-hungry bitch, and is cast from the Garden of Eden, Adam is put into a deep sleep in which God takes a rib bone and creates Eve, who turns out to be Adam's downfall. (P.S. you will not find the Genesis texts that deal with Lilith in the New Testament because they were excluded on the basis that it would seem to indicate that the Lord sanctioned polygamy, just for a start).

Even the perfect, all-powerful, Almighty couldn't create a decent woman -- and He took two shots at it before giving up.

Wanna talk about how Cain gets himself a wife in the wilderness where no other people are supposed to exist?

And we haven't even gotten out of Genesis yet....

"P.S. you will not find the Genesis texts that deal with Lilith in the New Testament because they were excluded on the basis that it would seem to indicate that the Lord sanctioned polygamy, just for a start).

My bad -- of course you won't find Genesis in the New testament. What I really meant to say was "in any interpretation of the Christian Bible written since about
400 AD or so."

Brain fart. My apologies.

[God is all-powerful, all-knowing and omniscient, and has a propensity to forecast the fact that there will be false prophets and to see the future (it's all over both the Old and New Testament in the form of prophecies). But somehow, his foresight failed him when he put Adam and Eve in the Garden and told them "don't eat that fruit". Either God is asleep at the wheel or He willingly tempted Adam and Eve knowing they would fail the test.]

Perhaps God chose to give mankind free will to choose Him or not. The bible clearly states that God see's the end from the beginning and He most certainly put the tree of Life in the Garden and gave only ONE commandment ot the man Adam and his wife Eve to not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which He foreknew they would choose to disobey, thereby initiating God's plan to save mankind by the choice to belive that God's only begotten Son Jesus Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead on the third day by the power of God so that we could be saved from death, hell, and the grave by His grace only.

Not my perspective.

Josh deals with those more eloquently than I would.

For most of my 59 years, whenever I've taken The Bible literally, the most wonderful results have occurred. Whenever I didn't, usually far less than wished for results occurred.

But anyone can perform their own experiment. They just need to realize that God is not an automatic vending machine AND He does things on HIS TIMELINE, HIS WAY.