(March 5, 2024 at 1:02 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(March 5, 2024 at 2:26 am)Belacqua Wrote: No, I think "lazy" is the right word. You're arguing in favor of your atheism with the easiest possible arguments.
Do you really think that a literalist reading of Genesis is essential to Christianity? If you think "the world wasn't created in six days" is sufficient to make all of Christianity unbelievable, then I think that's a bit too lazy.
I'm not sure how one is going to split that baby. If Adam and Eve aren't literal, then Christ's sacrifice becomes pointless.
Not necessarily. There's a school of thought that Adam and Eve are simply representations for humanity. In fact, in Hebrew, the word 'adam' functions as a pronoun for both an individual male and for all mankind. That said, it's not implausible that Christ's sacrifice is for the atonement of the sins of humanity, not for the 'original sin' of two people.
We can blame Paul for the confusion.
Boru
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