(September 18, 2015 at 8:00 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Prompted by the thread started by Shuffle (Help Me Understand), this is for the Christians here that do accept evolution. Which is good, since it's been observed many times, in the lab and the field.The biblical characters are meant to serve as mnemonic devices to aid in recounting oral history. So for instance, if the examiner said "Moses", "Jeremiah", "Ezekiel", or "Jesus" the student would then tell the examiner the main points associated with that character. A real good student could therefore memorize the entire history just by reciting the story associated with the characters by keeping the characters in order.
All the evidence available, in all the related fields (genetic, fossil, morphology, etc) all prove that modern homo sapiens did not come from one original man and woman.
There is absolutely no evidence for an 'Adam and Eve'.
Therefore:
No eating of the fruit of the tree of good and evil.
No 'original sin', no 'fall'.
No fall, no hereditary stain on humanity.
No reason for humanity to be forgiven.
No need for Yahweh to sacrifice his son (himself) in order to forgive humanity.
Please reconcile for me...
Consider how easy it would be for you to memorize the key points of the fairy tale this way by simply reviewing the story as given in Sirach chapters 44-51 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ersion=CEB;;
Modern people don't rely upon their memories as much as ancient people did because we have other methods of keeping track of stuff. But if a person is so inclined the method in Sirach chapters 44-51 can be used to remember complex material very easily. You can use it to remember the name of every bone, muscle, blood vessel, and organ in the human body in a very short time using this method.