(September 17, 2014 at 11:42 am)DramaQueen Wrote: The garden is in an island called Bahrain.
The cherubim and the swords are figures of speech
Figures of speech are intended to convey meaning. What meaning do cherubim and flaming swords convey? The story context is one of guarded defence of a prohibited area. If not actual cherubim and swords of flame, then what?
Related questions: how did you come to determine them as figures of speech? Why? What else must be interpreted figuratively and how and why must we make that distinction between literal and figurative?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
