(October 14, 2018 at 8:01 pm)Belaqua Wrote: Understood! Have fun y'all.
I was being facetious there. I'm interested in having a discussion about the text from all angles, really. Since the literalist interpretation is taken seriously by so many, I think it deserves to be addressed. But I think a good discussion could be had about the myth-value of stories like Adam and Eve. In some respects, the story might even be saying something pertinent about our predicament as moral agents: "Before we attained knowledge of good and evil, we were not 'cursed' to be morally responsible beings as we are now etc..."