Originally posted by Don Vercetti:
I don't recall the story being God giving them a hard life. I believe it was that he gave them paradise, they betrayed the only simple rule, and therefore they were taken away from paradise to the normal world of imperfections. God never left them, in fact he looked over them.
That doesn't take away the fact that their life became considerably worse for not obeying their God. The story portrays experimentation and free thinking as a negative thing, and that to me is a very dangerous thing to teach our kids.
