As for Adam and Eve, the story is a parable. The moral of the story is that humans have been given the gift of self-realization, the ability to know we are alive and some day will not be. That realization makes pain worse, and strips us of the dumb happiness of the rest of the animal kingdom. The garden of Eden is not some long vanished spot between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Garden of Eden is where the house cat, fish, and kangaroo live. It's a state of being blissfully unaware that life is going to end.
Are we to take your word on faith?
107 posted on 05/31/2005 2:18:55 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
("We, the people, are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts..." -Abraham Lincoln)
No, think it through, and consider the possibility that the passage is not to be taken literally. Jesus spoke in parables. Is it not possible that some Old Testament passages are parables as well?
109 posted on 05/31/2005 2:20:49 PM PDT by mysterio