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Adam and Eve - Part 1 - Page 2© Wayne Kreger
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Sep 4, 1998
God in this story appears as a father figure more than as a great deity. He creates Man first, then the Garden, the trees, the animals, and finally Woman. Are we to conclude from this then that the creators of this myth saw Man as the height of God's creation and Woman at the bottom, below animals and vegetation? Or did they save the place of Woman for last because in their creation myth they needed a way to explain the existence of all the animals and plants? Adam needed a place to live right? Then he needed some company right? But after creating all the animals, none were suitable so God made Eve, Woman, the perfect match. Could be. What about the Snake? Serpent mythology runs deep through time and across many cultures. It is often thought of as a devious and mobile creature. It is associated with the unconscious and the underworld as it slithers on the ground. And it is also seen as a phallic symbol suggesting power and fertility. A kinder view of snakes links it with healing and immortality as it seems to renew itself by shedding its skin. Certainly the Adam and Eve story presents the snake as a sly, dishonest, and perverse creature - the trickster who duped Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. It's funny how we place human characteristics onto animals isn't it? Some suggest that God had sent the Serpent to tell Adam and Eve that if they ate from the Tree of Life that they would live forever. But the Serpent instead told them to eat from the Tree of Death, lying to them to steal immortality for himself and away from mankind. The Biblical Creation Myth of Adam and Eve is indeed full of puzzling elements and we have touched on a few of them in this article. Come back next time when we explore this myth further by looking at the symbolism of the Trees.
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Let me provide a Religious and Scientific perspective here for you, I think I can help with this issue.As early as St. Augustine Christianity never took Genesis as a historical or scientific accou ...
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DEAR Linda and all that are watching; REGARDING faith and Adam and Eve, that were "Victimized"by
the Snake! Well "de-Mythologize" is too easy. Dr Carotta wrote a book "Is Jezus Caesar" where he pr ...
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Linda:I was amazed when I put the theory of the original sin up against the Adam and Eve creation story. I heard that Adam and Eve were guilty of bringing in original sin, until I read the lies o ...
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In response to your question about inbreeding in the beginning with Adam and Eve, if they were real, and not a mythological lesson for us. In the beginning, Adam and Eve were formed with perfect DNA ...
-- posted by ShirleyLBurr
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