From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 12:00:48 EDT
Jay Willingham wrote:
>
> Yes, you are engaging in pure assertion.
>
> I referred you to passages in Genesis that plainly state that God
> physically walked in the garden, Adam and Eve hid from him there when he was
> walking in the garden, they came out and explained why they were hiding from
> him, and he had a conversation with them, the outcome of which all creation
> suffers under.
>
> I find it difficult to understand why you assert that Genesis does not say
> God and man were physically together in the garden, aside from the assertion
> that all of the early parts of Genesis are pure allegory.
I will make one last try, since you don't seem to have paid close attention to
what has been said. The original claim was that, BEFORE the sin described in Genesis 3,
Adam & Eve walked & talked intimately with God in the garden. The question is not
whether Genesis 3 speaks of God walking in the garden, or whether it speaks of the man &
woman talking with God, AFTER they have sinned. It is whether they walked & talked with
God in the garden BEFORE they sinned. & Genesis does not say that they did. QED. If
you're going to be a biblical literalist, you have to pay close attention to what the
text says and to what it does NOT say.
BTW, I have never said "that all of the early parts of Genesis are pure
allegory." I have never said that they are "allegory" at all.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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