A Brief Addendum

I would like to make one small clarification to my last post, and in particular to my statement, "God seems to have brought disharmony, pain, and strife" My intention with this statement was not to give God the credit for the disharmony, pain, and strife experienced by Adam and Eve, and, all mankind subsequently, rather, my intention was to suggest that as a result of their sin God removed Himself, though not to the point where he became an inactive God, and gave them over to themselves and the sin, such as pain and strife, which they brought upon themselves by eating of the fruit.