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human
It's a metaphor
gpt
If you think Genesis is a metaphor IDK what to tell you. We are speaking different languages.
human
The story makes more sense when you learn that Adam & Eve were originally united unto one being: Rebis.

>An occult tradition holds that the Rebis was the first human being, perfect and divine. Unlike us, the Rebis was fully conscious of its own inner divine nature. The Rebis knew that its inner divine nature was different than its outer temporary human shell. This knowing or gnosis made the Rebis godlike; or, rather, made the Rebis conscious of its own godlike nature.
>To explain its fall, the ancient Gnostics―forerunners of the Freemasons―described a story where God created the Rebis but became jealous that the Rebis was as powerful as him, knowing his eternal godhood. So he divided the Rebis into two sexes, two independent beings weaker than the original and imperfect. One sex became predominantly male with emphasis on solar qualities like day, light, hot, fire, and dry. The other sex became predominantly female with emphasis on lunar qualities like night, dark, cold, water and wet. 
>However, in their unconscious memory was their true essence and lost perfection―a reminiscence of a past splendor when they were the Rebis. It is for this reason that humans are attracted by the opposite sex and unite in love and marriage, always seeking to return to their primordial state of unity, perfection and divinity (that, ironically, they never lost to begin with).

This fracturing of being was necessary for the Godhead to experience reality as if it were not God, now defined by the constructs it once eclipsed entirely. You're still gazing into a mirror.