So how are Adam and Eve's sin like the sin of the Israelites when they worshiped the golden calf. First God gave Adam and Eve one law, don't eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This was to protect them. God also gave the Israelites laws however they didn't make it down the mountain. The Israelites started praying to the false god, the golden calf, either because they wanted an excuse to pleasure themselves in immoral sexual activity or they lost faith in God, either way they turned their backs on the God who saved them from Egypt. In the same way Adam and Eve reject God by accepting Satan's demands and eating from the tree of knowledge. So basically they both sinned and broke the covenant with God by sinning.
Another way that these stories are similar is that the sinners are judged and punished. The Levities slaughter the idolaters and Adam and Eve are banished from the garden. Their lives become bound by rules. Adam and Eve have to toil and have painful births, while Israel is boxed in by new laws.
The biggest thing that these stories have in common is that they both turned away from God and God set rules in place to bring them back to Him. And for Tim's sake I will say Chinese Swiss Roll that is actually a Atom Bomb.
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