If we're just interested in stories that entertain small children, then, fine, we can limit the point made to the matter of disobedience. How should the parent respond in these cases? You see, the nature of the act of disobedience, of the command that's disobeyed, has a bearing on the response. Consider how a disobedient child might sneak a cookie before dinner or, perhaps, they might burn the house to the ground. My response to that is, let's not be ignorant. Adam was told, don't do that, but he did it anyway. Some will want to argue that the sin in the Garden was disobedience and that this is really the only thing that matters. For the mature, though, there's more to be known and understood about the Garden scenario and its consequences, much more! What is that but the colorful use of figurative language to explain a mature subject to the immature? The story told about Adam and Eve being tricked by a snake into eating an apple from a tree is like that. You're probably familiar with the classic way parents explain sexual reproduction to their children as "the birds and the bees." Another classic is the "brought by a stork" explanation for where babies come from. Adam did not father Cain, the serpent did. This is important because, as I think you'll shortly see, unless you really grasp the importance of seed and what happened in the Garden between the serpent, Eve and Adam you're missing a major "piece of the puzzle." Without it, you won't be able to interpret some really important elements of the counterfeit and the genuine agendas playing out in these last days.
That's an assumption this writing will challenge. Is Adam really Cain's Father? You may understand the Bible to say Adam and Eve had sex and Cain was born of that union.