EWS2304@TAMVENUS (01/12/90)
The following is from our local school bulletin board. This person is not a christian but said something here that was so true. We cannot pick and choose what we want to beleive! What he was trying to say was that you can't trully call yourself a christian and then try to tell me that the story about adam and eve is not literal. He made alot of sence. I hold to a literal veiw of all the bible and find it difficult not to because then the whole idea of salvation breaks down. I hope this post gives yall food for thought. In His Love, Eric. P.S. Remember the person who wrote this is not a beleiver. I don't know why he isn't. Maybe he finds it difficult to accept the adam and eve story of creation. Who knows but it was an intersting post. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -< A FORUM for intelligent discussion >- ================================================================================ -< Eden in Time and Space >- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'VE heard some of the Christians say that they did not believe that the Genesis story about Adam and Eve was "literal", but a parable of creation. As the Eden story seems to actually be a very important part of Christian theology (the Fall--without which there is no need for redemption and therefore a Messiah), I wonder how it is possible to "scaple" out Adam and Eve without "cutting" Christ himself out of the picture--and there are even more reasons why it seems to be of necessi- ty to have some reasonable interpretation of this story; for instance, a "mythological" Adam cannot begat "real" ancestors; I refer to the thread of geneologies that trace their way all the way to Christ in the New Testa- ment. -bastiat