can the story of Genesis be taken as a literal truth? were adam and eve people of history?
whats wrong with giving this story a modern meaning? as i understand while most christians and jews have rejected the literal meaning of this story, muslims havent even taken this first step towards modern knowledge. To my knowledge all the problems we find in islam today is due to muslims still taking their koran as a literal truth.
am i right?
2006-06-05 17:06:36 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
when will islam produce thinkers such as bishop john shelby spong, john robinson, Michael golder and rudolph bultmann?
2006-06-05 17:13:53 · update #1
yes!
maybe!why not!nothing wrong but it about faith Christ and Islam have a same story but different!
yup!that it's true!yea,you a Right but be carefully!
my answer:
there is nothing wrong but be carefull in your research!!
Islam have ibnu sina,and many more,only out the modern don,t want it know by people,but it just the glory that have passed!if you want to know there are outside that have Muslim that have thinker's like that but they just same like ibnu Sina and the other don,t want an glory not like them!they just like an a glory so they will rich knowing by all people in this people,an their name will be in the history and then some of then forget about the truth meaning of science!
2006-06-05 19:26:51 · answer #1 · answered by qz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's so difficult with believing that God created everything, including man and woman, and that when he created them, they were perfect, but he gave them the ability to make their own decisions, and they chose poorly and committed the first sin?
Compare that to evolution, which states that the earth has always been here, or came about as a result of a huge explosion (which came from nowhere) and somehow magically bacteria transformed themselves into larger organisms, which became larger and larger and changed from form to form, and that this process is responsible for all the variety of lifeforms we have today, despite the complete lack of evidence in the fossil record that transitional forms ever existed?
I think it's much easier to believe that God created this earth, and not so long ago (maybe about 4,000 years ago) and that when he created it, he created it with the appearance of age. Just like when he created the animals, and Adam and Eve...they didn't look like babies, even though they were only a day old. If a scientist were to examine them, he'd say they were around twenty years old, but Adam and Eve were created that day.
By a "modern meaning" you are suggesting calling everything a "fairy tale" and what you should realize is that if the Genesis story isn't true, and God didn't create us, Adam and Eve didn't sin, and the world didn't inherit sin-nature from them, then there was no reason for Jesus to come and die on the cross to save everyone who believes in him from all past, present and future sin. Any true Christian must believe in the creation story, lest salvation lose its truth and significance.
2006-06-06 01:03:13 · answer #2 · answered by Jenn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're giving Christians too much credit for intelligent interpretation of the Bible. From what I have experienced most Christians still read the story of Adam and Eve and creation as literal, and that is why they can't accept evolution. Also, unfortunately right wing christians aren't able to see the similiarities between their rigid belief system and fundamentalist muslims.
2006-06-06 00:10:30 · answer #3 · answered by keri gee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know where you get your information. Every religious Jew knows that the story of Adam and Eve is indeed literal!! It happened and was written in the Torah to teach us a lesson. There are a lot of things that happened that were not written in the Torah. That's because G-d only wrote about things that could teach us things, and that would apply to us forever!!
2006-06-12 14:18:24 · answer #4 · answered by Sunshine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think most christians or jews have rejected it as literal. You may want to reresearch this.
2006-06-06 00:41:26 · answer #5 · answered by southfloridamullets 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The writing is factual or literal truth.
2006-06-06 00:10:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah what you say is not true.
Many churches still hold for literal meaning of the bible.
2006-06-06 00:10:16 · answer #7 · answered by Lupin IV 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is all HOGWASH! all of it! Focus on peace all day tomorrow and you may learn what God is all about! 6/6/06
2006-06-06 00:10:09 · answer #8 · answered by mongo c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atleast its not Adam and Steve.
2006-06-06 00:09:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
adam and eve is a true story
2006-06-06 00:08:53 · answer #10 · answered by mandee l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋