Talking serpents, humans trying to get smarter then getting punished, Cain and Abel sleeping with Mother Eve since no one else was around and I could on on. Why read the rest of it since this book already shot down the credibilty of the rest of the text?
2007-06-08 18:28:17 · 13 answers · asked by NIHIL VERUM NISI MORS 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Adam and Eve didn't get punished for getting smarter, they got punished for disobeying God's one and only command at that time.
When you write a story, you have to focus on the HIGHLIGHTS and you don't include ALL the details. I believe Adam and Eve had many children before Seth was born, we just get the main events of what happend, with Cain and Abel.
"After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters."
2007-06-09 15:49:01 · answer #1 · answered by Friend of Jesus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You read it because within it is the truth. The enemy will set up many stumbling blocks to knock you down but you have to get back up and go on. Do not let a seed of doubt be planted within your mind because it will grow and eventually choke out the truth and going through this cycle will be tiresome and fruitless. Keep your head high, ask questions from the heart and not the head and "believe" that the true answers will be given to you!!
2007-06-09 16:08:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan as the serpent is symbolic.
(Revelation 12:7-9) And war broke out in heaven: Mi′cha·el and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled 8 but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven. 9 So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
The Great Dragon is Satan. The original serpent. Genesis ch. 3
2007-06-08 19:10:51 · answer #3 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the Garden is a metaphor for the easier "hunter-gatherer" lifestyle in which humans gathered fruits and hunted game. Therefore, the expulsion from the garden referred to the neolithic revolution (ca. 8,000 B.C), in which man had to work harder for food through farming and domesticating animals.
Animal and Plant domestication (Gen. 4:2-4)
Musical instruments and tools (Gen. 4:21-22)
2007-06-08 18:31:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the OT as a book of stories to convey deep truth. Like fairy-tales. Fairy-tales have an important purpose, they are not entertainment. If you want facts and logic just read the NT.
2007-06-08 18:35:15 · answer #5 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ye of Little Faith and Understanding will never know God/Jesus with the veil on your eyes. If you ever want to sincerely seek out your Maker, kick off those darn boots and open up your heart to Jesus. God bless
2007-06-08 18:45:40 · answer #6 · answered by connie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cain never slept with his mother he took his sister as his wife cause she would have been the only woman around to take as a wife.
2007-06-08 18:32:04 · answer #7 · answered by LadyCatherine 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe tomorrow will be better for you
Get some Holy Boots
2007-06-08 18:45:17 · answer #8 · answered by Gifted 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try starting at the New Testament.....Learn about the Christ...then once you have opened your mind and hopefully your heart go back to Genesis.....you will get it then..:)
2007-06-08 18:34:35 · answer #9 · answered by ✞ Ephesians 2:8 ✞ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Oh, I thought you had taped it going up the wall or something!
2007-06-08 18:34:39 · answer #10 · answered by KJ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋