New spin on Adam and Eve! (religions)

[Arlanbb]

DUNMEISTER ~ Your right - but if the creation story is a myth then the Theological truth of Christianty is also a myth because without a real Adam and Eve and their original sin Jesus is not need to save us from what didn't happen. arlan

[Riverwolf]

Originally Posted by Jayhawker Soule

Plagiarism is dishonorable: it is an act of theft and deceit. Whether you understand text stolen and fraudulently presented as your own is irrelevant.

I understand that other people feel that way, that it is an act of theft. I personally don't care if someone uses my words without citing me, but I respect that other people feel that way, and I never plagiarize because of it.

But I disagree that the legal issues are at hand here, as that is for the mods to take care of. As far as I'm concerned, Herushura has demonstrated a lack of understanding of the topic at hand.

[Muffled]

Originally Posted by Jayhawker Soule

Compare with ...

The word "Adam," as the proper name for the first man can be misleading. It comes from ha-adam in Hebrew, which translates to "the man"—Hebrew has no capital letters. The word adam is extracted from adamah, meaning country, earth, ground, husband, earth, or land. This suggests the context in Genesis 3:19, when God says "you are dust, and to dust you shall return." The name represents the material from which he was made. He wasn't an actual person.

Likewise, "Eve" is translated from the Hebrew chavvaòh, for lifegiver, as in "the mother of all living." Its root, Chaya, means "serpent" in Aramaic. Eve and serpent are taken to be synonymous.

The word, Eden, has been traced to the Sumerian language, meaning fertile land. To the Hebrews who later settled in the region, the word eden came to mean "delight" or "enjoyment." In a sense, it is a garden of delight.

In sum, the words Adam and Eve describe nobody in particular, and Eden describes no place in particular. It belongs with all the pagan mythologies of its type.

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Plagiarism is most typically employed by intellectual frauds.

I agree that he ought to report his source. Otherwise I have no more problem with it than with the link in the OP.

It is difficult to understand why people think that names are metaphors or necessarily attributed to groups. THe names seem appropriate to me for inidviduals. It only takes a man and a woman to bring a child into the world.