Adam and Eve? Not really, and here is the real story... (Isaiah, Israel)

[badlander]

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

Interestingly, the group I'm in that's reading Diarmaid McCulloch's Christianity just read this past week the chapter in which Darwin appears. Most of Protestant Christianity easily accepted evolution as not in conflict with their faith. Only in the early 20th century does the inerrant, literal bible concept appear. It's a relatively recent and exclusive, if noisy, breed.

I had thought it was early 19th century.

[Eusebius]

Originally Posted by badlander

I had thought it was early 19th century.

I thought it was 1st century.

[badlander]

Originally Posted by Eusebius

I thought it was 1st century.

So the people of the Old Testament did not take that literal?

[Eusebius]

Originally Posted by badlander

So the people of the Old Testament did not take that literal?

I'm sure they did.

[badlander]

Originally Posted by Eusebius

I'm sure they did.

Well they were around long before the 1st century.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by badlander

I had thought it was early 19th century.

I'm not going to retype from the Christianity book, but here's Wikipedia which pretty much has the same information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fundamentals

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Eusebius

I'm sure they did.

Not really, they were Jewish, and Jewish people don't, for example, take the Garden of Eden story or the Job story literally. Of course, I can't say whether this was the case 2000 years ago. You'd have to ask someone who knows historical Jewish thought.

I remember the first time I found out that Jews do not see the Garden of Eden story as a prophecy of a messiah. I always assumed that the prophecy came from Jewish interpretation, not Christian reinterpretation, but that they just didn't think it was Jesus who was the messiah or that the snake represented the personification of evil.

I said to the woman who told me this, "So wait...what is the snake in the story about to you guys? Just a talking snake?" She laughed and responded, "Pretty much." Of course the overall story to them is all about disobedience to God.

[Miss Hepburn]

As if anyone knows the 'real story'.

So much metaphor...and really who cares....here we are ...now
we must deal with ourselves....our hearts and our happiness.

Wishing everyone success with both.

[badlander]

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

I'm not going to retype from the Christianity book, but here's Wikipedia which pretty much has the same information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fundamentals

That is interesting. I think I read about the birth of Bible literalists in the UK. But it has been a little time since I have read that. Thanks for that link.

[Vizio]

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