(August 9, 2016 at 5:01 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(August 9, 2016 at 4:36 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Presumably, so would a woman disobeying an order from her creator to abstain from eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil -- you know, the plainly obvious sense of the story.
You must have some really disturbing psycho-sexual flotsam in your head to insist so vehemently on your pet reading of this story.
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The bible is not speaking of "literal" trees... if so point me to where an actual tree of the knowledge of good and evil exists. You don't find it the least bit curious that after the serpent and the woman did what they did, that God said there would be enmity between their seed?
Answer me this, If what happened in Eden had nothing to do with sex, then why else are we automatically born into sin? And why was it important for Jesus to be virgin born if sex had nothing to do with original sin? It all ties in together.
If you can't answer those basic questions, then you have no business entering into this discussion.
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The Bible is not speaking of literal people, here, either. It's a just-so story, Huggy. It's interesting that you are so eager to equate original sin with a sexual act, rather than willfulness and disobedience. As for Jesus, he was allegedly born of a virgin because the authors who spread that story came to their knowledge of Hebrew scripture by way of a Greek translation. If you don't know that, then you're the one with no business in such a discussion.
