Genesis interpretations - how many are there?

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 And because the bible states explicitly that Adam lived 930 years, it's not true that we can't put bounds on the length of time Adam lived in the garden.

Adam would have lived for an eternally if he had not sinned, His time began when he sinned and not before.

GC

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It's worth noting that Genesis 2 has man being created outside the Garden of Eden, so there's no need to separate the two narratives.

Agree.

As to the exit point, nothing in Genesis fixes the time when Adam and Eve left the garden, so the events detailed after Genesis 2:5 could all have occurred on the sixth day, as stated in Genesis 1.  You need an end point to your timeline.  (In addition to other assumptions, such as completeness, genre, and so on.)

The temptation and Adam and Eve falling to it could not have happened until at least day eight. God said that all was good in day seven. Day eight is not realistic just possible because we know God walked in the Garden with them in the evening, He would not have done that on the day of rest, so day eight is the logical time line for that to happen and the serpent wasn't going to stick his nose out in the presence of God. So from day nine on seems to be more reasonable for the temptation, punishment and exodus from the Garden. The end point is the exodus of the Garden, everything before that was bound in an eternal existence.

GC

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The fact that not even all Christians can even agree on whether the first story is literal or not shows you just how bad a job God did communicating. You'd think he could at least come and clear that bit up, to get them started.

Funnily enough, atheists seem to pretty much all agree on what happened there.

Atheist can't have but one belief as to what happen because they do not believe any of it happened. On the other hand most Christians except the creation and do interpret it differently because some do not take it literally. The story is a literal story and Chapter one and two do not contradict. Chapter one gives the creation as chronological and Chapter two is giving details in no real order because the order was established in Chapter one. Before the advent of evolution there were no maybe this and maybe that, everyone took the Genesis story as literal, the ensuing arguments mislead the weaker Christians because they were weak in their understanding of science. YEC Christians like myself do not have all the answers, however we see the many flaws in evolution because we take the time to study, we do not sit around on our hands we look for the evidence that will lead to truth.

GC