From: Jay Willingham (jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 15:12:25 EDT
I paid close attention. I simply believe you cannot see the forest for the
trees.
To me the circumstantial evidence I pointed to in the literal text is more
than sufficient to say the Lord and Adam and Eve had personal, face to face
interaction prior to, and, as in the interaction with Cain, after the fall
from grace.
But I really do not know if this makes a whole lot of difference, especially
when compared to the atonement string, so I will let you have the last word
on this if you want it.
As you do not believe Genesis 1-6 are allegory, what do you believe they
are?
Jay Willingham
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
> 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
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> George L. Murphy
> gmurphy@raex.com
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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