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Old 27-03-2021, 01:26 PM
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It seems literal by the way it is described.

That is how it comes across to me.
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Old 27-03-2021, 02:47 PM
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What is your view of the Story of Creation? Do you see it as literally true or figurative and symbolic?
Adam is an actual person. He is in Heaven now.
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Old 27-03-2021, 04:11 PM
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Adam is an actual person. He is in Heaven now.


Where's Eve, is She in Hell because She tempted Him to be naughty
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Old 27-03-2021, 04:42 PM
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Which parts do people think are symbolic or figurative, and why?
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Old 27-03-2021, 05:09 PM
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Where's Eve, is She in Hell because She tempted Him to be naughty

She is not in Hell. Hell is not 'found' in the Bible unless a person is looking at a translation that mistranslates it so that it appears that Hell does exist.
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Old 28-03-2021, 01:07 AM
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Where's Eve, is She in Hell because She tempted Him to be naughty

adam and eve were perhaps twin souls that reunited into one "sexless" soul in heaven
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Old 28-03-2021, 01:45 AM
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The fruit has commonly been represented as an apple due to wordplay of the Latin word for apple, malus, which can mean both "evil" and "apple". The Bible does not specify a fruit, but locates it as being at the very center of The Garden of Eden.
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Old 28-03-2021, 08:27 AM
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adam and eve were perhaps twin souls that reunited into one "sexless" soul in heaven


Oh,
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Old 28-03-2021, 08:37 AM
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It obviously is a metaphor, and much older than the bible suggests.
As far as I know it know it was mentioned in the Sumerian texts.
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Old 28-03-2021, 09:21 AM
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It obviously is a metaphor,

Why is it obvious?

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and much older than the bible suggests.

What does the Bible suggest? I don't recall it said Genesis was some thousands of years ago, though there are believers with a biased Bible-centric world view that 'calculate' it back to 6k years ago.
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