What does the story of Adam and Eve tell us?

Question

Is it meant to be taken literally? If not, what does it all mean?

If you think it's meant to be taken literally, please, answer another question. I only want to read answers from people who believe there is more to the story than can be taken at face value.

Answer 1

Now, Skeptic, that's a little confusing- asking if it's literal, and saying you don't want to hear from those who believe it to be literal. I'm laughing.
But, I'll tell you- I believe that at some point that whether or not Adam and Eve existed in real time, they let us know that God chose to have a covenant with mankind. The story that they tell us is that God wants a relationship with us. Adam and Eve may not have been the first humans on the earth, for from my reading of ancient civilization, it seems there were other peoples. However, since Jesus lineage is traced to them, I will say I believe they lived.
Now, about that serpent,-. I think the point is that we should know and trust what God says and not listen to anyone else, really. And I would hope that if my husband found me talking to a snake, he'd say "Babe, we don't take council from snakes"

Answer 2

Sin did not come into being from eating of the fruit. It came into being from the disobedience of Adam and Eve. Had Adam refused to eat of the fruit, what would the outcome had been?

Would Eve had been forgiven for Adams faithfulness, since Adfam was the hed of the family and answered for all family matters?

If you read the Bible as it is written and try not to interpet it, and you are a child of God then the Holy Spirit will help you to understand the written word.

if you are not a child of God then the Bible will convict your heart for the sins that you have and the Holy Spirit will bring you and understanding of what you must do to accept Jesus as your Savior. Then the Holy Spirit will help you to better understand the Bible.

Answer 3

Let's reason together about this, was the sin actually in the eating of the fruit or desiring something that God had not given them. Sin always starts with a desire, than an action, than a re-action.

In this case, God had no intention for them to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, yet>--but because they desired
It's much the same way in our lives today. A man and woman is happily married, but a beuatiful neighbour lady moves in next door. If the man's mind is not kept on the LORD and the sanctified relationship that he has with his wife, a desire can creep in. Then as this desire grows and grows an action is made in look or gesture. Then the action grows into an adulterous relationship. Then a re-action takes place (just as when Adam and Eve were thrusted out of the marriage covenant that they had with the LORD) by either the man or the woman being thrusted out of the marriage relationship

Answer 4

Well, it's demeaning to women in the fact that the woman was created from a part of the man who was created from dirt to begin with. Where does that put women? Lower then dirt? Then Eve is made to look like a criminal, who leads Adam to temptations and etc. What's worse is that all of humanity supposedly spawned out of Adam and Eve, therefore inheriting their flaws.

Answer 5

There is way more to the story than meets the eye. Did you know Cane is not mentioned in the Bible after God marked him and sent away from the garden of Eden. He is nor even mentioned in the genealogy of Adam, or anyone. Why do you think that is, I know why.

Answer 6

well, its obviously not meant to be be taken literally, otherwise we would all be related, through incest which is a sin. therefore that, just like everything else in the bible is another Asops fable with a moral at the end. I think that the moral is shown through the snake, the "Do not lead us into temptation" in this case of taking what is not ours.

Answer 7

Robert McElvaine's book "Eve's Seed" holds that it is a complaint by men against the shift from being nomadic to having to settle in one place during agricultural growth, and men naturally blamed the women.

Answer 8

Adam and Eve was the first man and woman created by God. Adam and Eve have two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain kills Abel when God rejects his offering and accepts Abel's. These children then multiply, populate the world, and take dominion over it, as God had commanded.

To answer your question, God created Adam and Eve to populate the world. There kids have kids/grand-kids (etc) and them kids have kids with each-other. Known today as POLYANDRY.

Answer 9

It means its promoters want to instill a sense that humans are inherently bad, bad people; thus they are more easily controlled.

If eating a fruit is forbidden, is that such a crime that literally all offspring have to pay the price? That says more about the alleged god than about the "crime" itself.

Answer 10

Well, for one thing, if you allow satan to deceive you rather than obeying the voice of the Lord, you might make your life worse, but you effect others as well (because they introduced sin into human lives, we now suffer as well).