From: Jay Willingham (jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 10:22:29 EDT
The quotes I referred to make walking with God well founded inference.
Your hair and pipe metaphor are pure unfounded speculation.
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
To: "Jay Willingham" <jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: "ASA" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: RATE
> Jay Willingham wrote:
> >
> > It is easy to infer that Adam and Eve had a personal, intimate
relationship
> > with God in the garden and walked and talked with him
there.................
>
> It is easy to infer that Adam had red hair and smoked a pipe. I.e.,
there's
> nothing in Genesis that says he didn't. But injecting whatever we want
into a story is
> not serious biblical interpretation - even if Adam & Eve walking in the
garden with God
> is a staple of bad sermons & Sunday School lessons. Genesis 2-3 is a
story with
> profound theological content, but not history, and as with any story, we
shouldn't put
> in things that the author didn't tell us.
>
> Shalom,
> George
>
>
> George L. Murphy
> gmurphy@raex.com
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
>
>
>
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