Genesis, the first book of the Bible, is a symbol of life. It's a metaphor for both human birth and the beginning of the universe. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (Gen. 1:1), means the first thing God created was duality: wave-particle, male-female, good-bad, etc. Before the Big Bang, some polarity had to create its explosion, therefore the concept existed before the action. Likewise, before birth, the human is created by the duality of the egg and sperm. You can see parallels between the creation of the universe and human birth throughout the book, despite it appearing to be about the creation of Earth.
Genesis 1:2 states: And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Chaos is apparent as God's blueprint takes shape. The universe and the human are designed in a singularity and embryo, respectively. As particles and genes are assembled, the form of things is in a state of potential.
Genesis 1:3-4: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. The Big Bang happens, separating darkness from light. Time begins (relative time, to be more precise) because systems rely on duality. Dualities are designated their "good" and "bad" counterparts the moment this happens. Biologically, the sperm penetrating the egg is the explosion of growth needed to create all the intricate systems that make up humans.
Next comes a long description about the creation of the Earth, which by extension can be understood as the creation of galaxies, stars, etc.; and the human body as it takes shape in the womb. I won't go into detail about how every day relates to the cosmos and anatomy. The imagination is a good enough source for that.
The Garden of Eden represents a metaphysical state of innocence as both the Earth and fetus take shape before their existences as a natural entities. The garden wasn't an actual place. The tree of knowledge represents the spirit as it relates to God before being born; only by being born can the spirit experience all the duality evident in God's creation. There is no knowledge before being born because the spirit does not experience dualism, only the monism of being transcended from it. The serpent that tricks Eve into eating the apple is represented as nature. Nature is what induces humans to reason, for all cause and effect is governed by it, as are the primitive drives that lead to what the purists call sins. This is not to say that nature is evil, only that the physical limitations of it are separate from the transcendent heavens of godliness from whence we originated. In order to reach heaven after death, we must abstain from the temptations nature gives us to transcend it, returning us home to the monad we were separated from.
It's thought that the fetus cannot experience the natural world inside the womb because it's still in a state of spiritual union. Thus, woman is blamed for the Fall because she is the one who brings life into the world. Not that I agree with this statement. It seems to me that men and women both bring life into the world, that once conception begins the fetus is subject to all kinds of natural phenomena. I'm only explaining why in Genesis woman is tricked by the serpent and not the other way around, because she brings forth life. She is thought to be the physical deliverer of "natural sin".
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