(August 26, 2018 at 8:43 pm)fromdownunder Wrote: I imagine that there are apologetics somewhere to explain this discrepancy, but I cannot be bothered chasing them up at the moment.
Norm
No, I can't either. You'd probably have to ask a fundie, which I'm not. It's a matter of non-importance IMHO.
In terms of the meta-narrative, the key points are
(1) Humanity was given by God stewardship of the world.
However they weren't prepared to go out and about and do the job. Probably people weren't able to get good wifi away from the city. Therefore God forces them out. So
(2) God expects us to carry out the task of establishing His Kingdom, and Bad Things happen if that's not the case.