The purpose of myth is to explain the unexplainable. The beautiful and sacred genesis myth serves to explain the point that humans came to understand consequences. The central figures of the story had to leave the paradise of simple painless animal-like innocence born of ignorance and entered the complex realm of pain born of knowledge, understanding, and consequence. The Adam and Eve story, which cannot be penetrated with the kind of logic you use is better understood and appreciated from a deeper inner perspective, as are all myths. This deeper inner perspective removes the inconsistencies we see when we try to understand myth from a business as usual, mundane perspective.
2007-05-28 00:14:32
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answer #1
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answered by jaicee 6
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Some brainy type figured it at 20 billion. There would still be room enough for all.
Think about it. If they were going to die anyway, what difference would a punishment of death be? None. He still lived several hundred years after and had children.
Today doctors can find no reason why our cells do not keep renewing indefinitely. They just don't.
Clearly humans were meant to live forever.
2007-05-28 02:59:53
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answered by grnlow 7
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If Adam & Eve had not disobeyed Jehovah, they would be living somewhere on the Earth today in a Garden of Eden, a Paradise.
There are those who reason that, because of the very nature of the physical universe, the time must come when the sun will no longer shine and the earth will no longer sustain life. But are they correct? What does the Creator say, the One who brought into existence energy and matter, the One who originated the laws on which our existence depends?
Solomon penned these words: “A generation is going, and a generation is coming; but the earth is standing even to time indefinite.” But for how long? According to the literal rendering of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, it will be “to time indefinite.” What does that mean?
As to what the expression means in connection with the earth, we are not left in doubt. At Psalm 104:5 we are told: “He has founded the earth upon its established places; it will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever.
Thus it is regarding the planet Earth on which we live that Jesus Christ taught his followers to pray to God: “Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.”
Jehovah’s will is not for the earth to be inhabited by people who have no regard for its Owner and little love for one another. Long ago he promised: “Evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” (Psalm 37:9, 29) “The inhabited earth to come,” of which the Bible speaks, will be populated by people who fear God and sincerely love their fellowmen. So great will be the changes that take place under God’s heavenly Kingdom that the Bible speaks of “a new earth”, not a different globe, but a new human society that will live amid the paradisaic conditions that mankind’s Creator purposed from the time he began his earthly creation. Revelation 21:1-5
The establishing of that “new earth” will, of necessity, be preceded by great destruction, one surpassing anything that mankind has yet experienced. For the good of the earth itself and all who are truly grateful to its Creator, he will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.” (Revelation 11:17, 18)
“Inherit the earth”, what an exciting prospect! But can we be sure that this is not just another crafty scheme designed to deprive people of something? Yes, we can. Since the earth is part of Jehovah’s marvelous creation, he as the Maker and Owner has the legal right to bequeath it to whomever he chooses. Through King David, Jehovah made this prophetic promise to His beloved Son, Jesus Christ: “Ask of me, that I may give nations as your inheritance and the ends of the earth as your own possession.” (Psalm 2:8) For this reason, the apostle Paul described Jesus as the one “whom [God] appointed heir of all things.” We can, therefore, have full confidence that when Jesus said that the meek “shall inherit the earth,” he did so in good faith, and he has the proper authority to fulfill his promise.
Peter writes that God brought the Deluge “upon a world of ungodly people,” while preserving Noah and his family; in this way “the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water.” (2Pe 2:5; 3:6) It may again be noted that the reference here is not to the destruction of the planet or of the celestial bodies of the universe, but it is restricted to the human sphere, in this case the unrighteous human society. It was that “world” that Noah condemned by his faithful course.
2007-05-28 00:24:18
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answer #3
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answered by BJ 7
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No, the original design was for eternal life (i.e. The Tree of Life).
To the above - Who said they didn't have sex until after the fall? They didn't have kids until later, but how many times have you had sex and not produced children?
2007-05-27 23:19:36
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answered by capitalctu 5
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The story of Adam & Eve is a hoax. When members of the same family bear children the offspring are always born with genetic defects like sterility and Mongolism (Down Syndrome). If you want proof, marry your cousin and have children. Religions know that its not the word of God but they insist that the followers believe that it is.
2007-05-27 23:14:16
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answered by liberty11235 6
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God let them die for a reason no one know that reason
2007-05-27 23:09:50
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answered by Anonymous
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He didn't say they would always exist on Earth or that they would always be able to produce children.
2007-05-27 23:10:24
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answered by tabulator32 6
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They didnt have sex till after the fall... so go figure?
2007-05-27 23:09:31
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answered by ddead_alive 4
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