Hid

3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

This certainly tells us a lot about the God of this chapter.  First, he has a voice, and thus one would presume a mouth.  Second, he walks, and thus presumably has legs.  Third, it is at least implied that he sweats, or why would he wait for evening ("the cool of the day") to go for a walk in the garden?  This suggests a God who is more a wealthy landowner than some supernatural being.

It also tells us one more thing about God, what Adam and his wife thought of him.  Imagine that today is the first day you know good from evil.  You hear someone coming, and you know that they're good.  Do you hide?  You hear someone coming, and you know that they're evil.  Do you hide?

Right after taking up sewing, the way Adam and his wife demonstrate their knowledge of good and evil is to hide from God.  Because they are afraid of God.  Because they know that God is the sort of person who lies to a couple young children.  The sort of person who locks naked children in his garden.  The sort of person who tries to persuade a young boy to take a goat as a mate.  In short, they now know that God is evil.

I know, you're thinking I've got some wacky agenda, saying things like that.  But those are the words; you can look them up yourself.  I didn't write the Bible; I'm just reading it carefully, without preconceptions.  I think this all means that the source of the preconceptions must be people with some sort of agenda of their own.  But I honestly can't say I really understand why the actual text is at such variance with the common interpretation.