If Adam & Eve were metaphorical, was Jesus and his crucifixion also a metaphor?

Question

Original sin is said to come from Adam & Eve's fall, if their story is a metaphor as many people suggest then Jesus crucifixion and death to save us from original sin makes little sense unlerss it too is a metaphor.
My previous similar question was removed , please use restraint and consider this serious question before depriving others the chance to answer it and for me to read their replies.

Answer 1

This is one of the main reasons that Christianity is difficult for me.. One must take the Adam and Eve story as a literally true event for original sin to be a valid doctrine.. If Adam and Eve are metaphorical, then the death of Jesus was to no avail.

Answer 2

It is a metaphor and it is also a symbolic death to prove that there is an afterlife. How else would one believe that a person can rise from the dead and enter heaven? Crucifying people was very common in Roman times, so by having Jesus crucified, and then being told that he didn't die, but lived instead to enter heaven, it is supposed to prove the theory of an afterlife.

Answer 3

Adam and eve were not a metaphore. They were the first humans.

Good question because Jesus was the "New Adam". Adams sin was on a tree and so Jesus had to die on a tree. This is a parallel. But no, neither one is metaphorical.

God bless,
Shane

Answer 4

I believe most of the stories in the Bible are metaphors. This doesn't mean the Bible does not have value, but only if you are able to correctly interprete and understand it.

It's unfortunate that your previous question was removed, which means someone reported it as "abuse". How sad that someone feels threatened by the possibility that their way of thinking might not hold up to scrutiny.

Answer 5

Adam and Eve were not metaphors. And there is no such thing as "original sin." Adam and Eve were given their free agency and chose to eat the fruit, which brought about mortality. Yet in doing this, they were obeying the commandment to multiply (for which they needed mortal bodies). It was not a SIN, but a CHOICE, and God had to introduce free agency to them somehow. They actually did exactly what He knew they would.

Therefore, since Adam and Eve brought mortality (physical death) into the world as well as spiritual death (separation from God's presence), we needed Jesus Christ to reverse those conditions. He brought resurrection to conquer physical death, and the chance to return to God instead of staying spiritually dead.

The story is not a metaphor. It was written by Moses, who was a prophet of God and was given knowledge by God and commanded to write. I don't think God would command a prophet to write fictional accounts of God's works.

Answer 6

I am a Christian and my church believes that the story of Adam & Eve is literal, not metaphorical.

The life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Son of God is also very literal.

Who is suggesting these stories are metaphorical?

Answer 7

particularly, women are condemned for the alleged sins of two metaphors: Eve and Lillith. And Lillith has rather lots been written out of all the religious memories by making use of adult males. answer: some human beings have a complicated time telling fact from fiction, allegory from fact.

Answer 8

Yes, a metaphor, a glorious metaphor. But that is no reason not to believe...you can believe in a metaphor. It's also okay to believe in imaginary things. You don't have to have everything handed to you on a literal platter; some things can be figurative, metaphorical, allegorical, and yes imaginary.
Furthermore, it's okay to believe in things that might not necessarily be true. Christians do it famously, and it's okay.

Answer 9

There is plenty of evidence that crucifixion was a common way that criminals were put to death around the time that Jesus was supposed to have been crucified. There quite possibly was a historical person that was crucified. But there is no evidence that any of the miracles attributed to Jesus actually happened. There's quite a bit of evidence that aspects of his story were adpated from previous myths.

Answer 10

well, it's at least possible that a radical Hebrew holy man got himself executed by the method used by the oppressors of his people.
while it's a whole lot less possible that an invisible super being sculpted a male human out of dirt and then female human out of a rib bone who then had a chat with a talking snake.

some Bible stories are just a wee bit more believable than others.