2007-02-23 13:55:05 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i did not mean any desrespect to people that do not believe in Adam and Eve we share the same world.
2007-02-23 13:59:45 · update #1
We are all interrelated in the family of man and share one home, Earth.
2007-02-23 14:02:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No atheists can now prove that there was never an Adam or Eve, or GOD. Just kidding
2007-02-23 22:00:07 · answer #2 · answered by Victor V 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you mean by peace, and what you have to do to achieve it. If peace means giving up my faith in Christ then you are in for a fight. If peace means convert to Islam or die, I personally will chose the latter. Islam's concept of peace is that the world will be at peace when everyone on it is Muslim. That isn't my idea at all. I say lets not make peace.
2007-02-23 22:01:27 · answer #3 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not according to the atheists on here. You'll never make peace with them unless you agree with everything they say. Like you, I can't do that. I am a daughter of Eve.
2007-02-23 22:02:08 · answer #4 · answered by Amalthea 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I guess because you've here to promote peace I'll just skip over the whole "Adam and Eve" thing.
Well, no. Maybe not.
My parents are/were Arthur and Greta.
And I'm from "the other people"
Gen 4:1 - The man had intercourse with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain...
2 She gave birth to a second child, Abel, the brother of Cain. Now Abel became a shepherd and kept flocks, while Cain tilled the soil.
3 Time passed and Cain brought some of the produce of the soil as an offering for Yahweh,
4 while Abel for his part brought the first-born of his flock and some of their fat as well. Yahweh looked with favor on Abel and his offering. But he did not look with favor on Cain and his offering, and Cain was very angry and downcast.
Well, why shouldn't he be? Both brothers had brought forth their first fruits as offerings, but Yahveh rejected the vegetables and only accepted the blood sacrifice. This was to set a gruesome precedent:
8 Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go out;" and while they were in the open country, Cain set on his brother Abel and killed him.
Accursed and marked for fratricide,
16 Cain left the presence of Yahweh and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
We can assume that the phrase "left the presence of Yahweh" implies that Yahweh is a local deity, and not omnipresent. Now Eden, according to Gen. 2:14-15, was situated at the source of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, apparently right where Lake Van is now, in Turkey. "East of Eden," therefore, would probably be along the shores of the Caspian Sea, right in the Indo-European heartland. Cain settled in there, among the people of Nod, and married one of the women of that country. Here, for the first time, is specifically mentioned the "other people" who are not of the lineage of Adam and Eve. I.e., the Pagans.
So let's look at this story from another viewpoint: There we were, around six thousand years ago, living in our little farming communities around the Caspian Sea, in the land of Nod, when this dude with a terrible scar comes stumbling in out of the sunset. He tells us this bizarre story, about how his mother and father had been created by some god named Jahweh, and put in charge of a beautiful garden somewhere out west, and how they had gotten thrown out for disobedience after eating some of the landlord's forbidden magic fruit of enlightenment. He tells us of murdering his brother, as the god of his parents would only accept blood sacrifice, and of receiving that scar as a mark so that all would know him as a fratricide. The poor guy is really a mess psychologically, obsessed with guilt. He is also obsessively modest, insisting on wearing clothes even in the hottest summer, and he has a hard time with our penchant for skinny-dipping in the warm inland sea. He seems to believe that he is tainted by the "sin" of his parent's disobedience; that it is in his blood, somehow, and will continue to contaminate his children and his children's children. One of our healing women takes pity on the poor sucker, and marries him...
17 Cain had intercourse with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. He became builder of a town, and he gave the town the name of his son Enoch.
With both of their first sons not turning out very well, Adam and Eve decided to try again:
25 Adam had intercourse with his wife, and she gave birth to a son whom she named Seth...
26 A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. This man was the first to invoke the name of Yahweh.
Now it doesn't mention here where Seth's wife came from. Another woman from Nod, possibly, or maybe someone from another neolithic community downstream in the Tigris-Euphrates valley. But her folks also, cannot be of the lineage of Adam and Eve, and must also be counted among "the other people."
2007-02-24 01:36:08 · answer #5 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is because we are all descendents of Adam that we cannot live in peace....the fallen Adamic nature within us all is the reason each and every one of us experience such chaos and continually need a savior.....if you want to live in peace, look to be a descendent of the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ.
2007-02-23 22:00:03 · answer #6 · answered by CassandraM 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I'm all for peace. Lets quit talking about it online, and talk about it in real life - maybe even do something about it in real life.
2007-02-23 22:00:38 · answer #7 · answered by Smiley 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whether you're right or wrong about our past, peace is something we should all get behind. Let's concentrate on that.
2007-02-23 21:59:34 · answer #8 · answered by zargonofb 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Adam and Steve adopted me.
2007-02-23 21:59:45 · answer #9 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am the daughter of Alice and Rick, but Salaam Eleikum to you.
2007-02-23 21:59:31 · answer #10 · answered by dorkmobile 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋