(October 7, 2017 at 11:43 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(October 7, 2017 at 11:37 pm)Crossless2.0 Wrote: Oh, I agree. But then I don’t believe in a divine plan that existed throughout eternity but just happened to be dropped into history at a particular backwater locale after hundreds of millennia of human pre-history.
Interesting that you agree it wasn’t a thing, despite what Genesis claims.
Lol not very many mainline Christians take Genesis as literal, historical fact...
Yeah, I know that. But since we agree that the Adam and Eve story is just that and not history, it does make me wonder why there was no urgency in communicating these divine precepts to much earlier humans, considering the stakes. Given their very recent introduction, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to ask how important marriage — or any of the rest of the divine plan — was that your god couldn’t be bothered to lay it out much earlier.
It’s almost as if it was all man made.