Halcyon
Lord of the Badgers
Sure was, but we have Egyption and Chinese records older than that.Katzpur said:I'm sure it was very important, but 6000 years is an awfully long time ago.
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Sure was, but we have Egyption and Chinese records older than that.Katzpur said:I'm sure it was very important, but 6000 years is an awfully long time ago.
Characters in myths normally don't write anything. If the myth has an actual historical truth behind it, we cannot expect that the first humans were able to write.Buttons* said:Okay, so this was based off of another thread Jeffery started.
If Adam and Eve ate from the fruit of knowledge and could do all the things we could now, why didn't they write anything down themselves? If they knew everything from the fruit, why didnt they come up with all the stuff we have now? Wouldn't they find it kind of important to write some of it down for their kids generations and what not?
Interesting. It's common for Luciferians to compare Lucifer to Prometheus. Many of us also believe that the serpent in the garden represented Lucifer. Do you find the serpent's actions commendable or abhorant? Personally, the snake has my gratitude.Compare this to the story of Prometheus, and consider the likeness.
I would rather live without evil.Ðanisty said:Interesting. It's common for Luciferians to compare Lucifer to Prometheus. Many of us also believe that the serpent in the garden represented Lucifer. Do you find the serpent's actions commendable or abhorant? Personally, the snake has my gratitude.
If you lived without evil, you would not know what good is. You must experience pain to understand pleasure...angellous_evangellous said:I would rather live without evil.
The serpent's actions are neither commendable or abhorant. It's a myth explaining why there is personal and natural evil in the world, leaving God blameless. The point of the story is that life is hard because humanity rebelled against God.
...that's what i meant to say....Halcyon said:Sure was, but we have Egyption and Chinese records older than that.
That's dualism. In a non-dualistic theology, good and evil do not exist side by side. Good and evil can be equated to light and dark. Light and dark do not exist side by side. The argument is that darkness does not exist on its own, at all. Darkness is simply the absence of light.Buttons* said:If you lived without evil, you would not know what good is. You must experience pain to understand pleasure...
Well, here's a Christian who won't give you opposing thoughts; I believe there was a garden of Eden. We are living in it; my belief is that one day, it will be back to what it was originally.Buttons* said:I'm sorry for not presenting this clearer. I did already know that gensis is an allegory, but I find the entire Bible to be one. I was asking for Christians to give me opposing thoughts on the subject.
So you don't think you can enjoy something without first understanding both sides?Buttons* said:You must experience pain to understand pleasure...
1. No one would have understood it post Babal.Buttons* said:If Adam and Eve ate from the fruit of knowledge and could do all the things we could now, why didn't they write anything down themselves? If they knew everything from the fruit, why didnt they come up with all the stuff we have now? Wouldn't they find it kind of important to write some of it down for their kids generations and what not?
According to some Christian Sects, humanity has only been around for 6000 years. Like Halcyon stated, we've had Egyptian and Oriental texts that have been around for longer than that.pdoel said:We have millions of years of history to think about.
So are you saying that Adam was a step in the evolutionary chain? I assumed that Adam and Eve were exactly like us, speaking ability and all.pdoel said:During the time of Adam and Eve and now, we've had many different civilizations. We've had hundreds of thousands of years of man where there was no language. Only grunting. For a long period of time, people communicated by drawing pictures.
Wouldn't God have a way to convey that to us because he wanted his knowledge known? Millions of years... are you sure about that?pdoel said:So, with that information alone, what would Adam write? Would he draw pictures? Would it be in some language that no longer exists, and hasn't existed for millions of years? Would he even have a concept of language?
podel said:If he somehow did manage to have a language and written skills, we're talking documents that would be millions of years old. No chance they'd still be around, or even around at the time of the writing of the Bible.
JerryL said:1. No one would have understood it post Babal.
JerryL said:2. Noah's flood.
If he wanted to, yes. What makes you assume he wants to?But God can do all things, and he would have made his people able to read it if it was that important. God's people would have understood through the power of God himself.. dont you think?
Because he didn't want to?Assuming that actually happened, wouldn't God equip Noah with all of his works and words?
Victor said:So you don't think you can enjoy something without first understanding both sides?
Well, why not?JerryL said:If he wanted to, yes. What makes you assume he wants to?
JerryL said:Because he didn't want to?
You'll have to bring both of those up with Him.Buttons* said:Well, why not?
Why not?
he didnt have to. moses came after the flood and he was the one God choose to start the Bible. besides you wear his words on your heart.Buttons* said:Well, why not?
Why not?
I suppose, but I'm not asking for God's answer, i'm asking for the people on the forum's opinions! *smiles*SoyLeche said:You'll have to bring both of those up with Him.