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Author Topic:   Some Questions Concerning the Eden Texts, etc.
bluescat48
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Message 10 of 23 (517369)
07-31-2009 11:46 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Bailey
06-20-2009 2:35 PM


1) Did Adam and Eve evolve or were they created?
The story is allegorical
2) When God took them into the garden were they a basic family?
Ditto
3) If created, were they subject to physical death?
if they lived at all they were subject to death.
4) Was the tree of life not mentioned as a concern along with the tree of knowledge of good and evil because it was not a concern because they were already immortal?
again allegorical
5) Is the tree of life the antidote to either the physical or spiritual death?
Same
6) If they were a basic family and not subject to death would they live forever as a family?
no they would be subject to physical death.
7) Is the Messiah's mission to restore to it's original state what God created or to change things?
more allegory
8) When Isaiah says that the lion will eat hay like the ox will that be a restoration of what was before the fall or will that be a change?
allegorical comparison.
9) Is this knowledge valuable to a discussion regarding how the age of the earth is thought of?
No, it has no bearing. The whole Bible is a combination of allegory, historical fiction & myth.
Edited by bluescat48, : punct & clarity

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