Genesis 3 is doing far more work in Western Christianity than in any other branch, and reading it as a piece of history is a comparatively recent habit. Origen in the third century said flatly that no one of any intelligence supposes there were literal days before there was a sun. Augustine wrote a book called On the Literal Meaning of Genesis and by literal meant something closer to what the author intended than to a video recording. The doctrine of the fall as inherited guilt is Augustine's, built on a Latin translation of Romans 5:12 that reads in whom all sinned where the Greek reads because all sinned — one preposition doing a great deal of load-bearing. Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy read the chapter as the entry of death and disordered desire rather than of transmitted culpability. Jewish readers, who own the text first, have generally not built a doctrine of the fall on it at all, which is worth knowing before assuming the reading is obvious.