DC wrote:
re read the genesis account carefully no 1st wife no sexual positions all that is made up. sorry eve was created to help him and all was very good including eve until she gave into temptation and disobeyed God and then Adam listening to his wife also disobeyed God which resulted in punishment and curses. you can be a dreamer of dreams but there is a difference between dreams and reality as you know
You are most welcome to refute the historical record, if you like, DC. Makes zero difference to me. Even if you are unfamiliar with how "the Bible" has been translated numerous times, as well as "edited for...acceptable for the masses" many times.
(Which "Bible" do you use ?.....King James, Revised Standard Version, New Revised Standard Version, Good News for Modern Man, or according to the inventory of our local mall's "Evangel Bookstore" another 180+ Bibles...in stock, can certainly order others !
Personally, I am hoping to live long enough to see much of the Dead Sea Scrolls translated. The ones completed thus far have several instances of "correcting" some of the mis-translated passages (on purpose, ordered to do so by a King or Pope ? Or simply by a transcriber not using the truly equivalent translation ?....my favorite is "virgin"...my Father explained that the word was actually "maiden", which simply meant Mary hadn't been sleeping around before Joseph, as was common in the day...wholly unacceptable to the Catholic hierarchy, trying to message to the masses they wished to continue to control.)
And if you insist on taking as literal, all you read in YOUR Bible....why leave out how it was, that Adam apparently lived the rest of his life being maimed ? Can't remove a rib from one side and expect to "be okay", can you ?
Just because YOU are oblivious to something, hardly gives cause to simply dismiss as "made up". I don't think you want to go down that path.....with me or any educated person, theologian or otherwise.
Furthermore, I AM a "dreamer of dreams"....a 20+lb Steelhead, a 1937 Cord roadster, a fine house on a waterbody, the forever love of a good woman, the ultimate chair design.....so very many and diverse "dreams"...that likely will never come to be, but I remain hopeful !
Absolutely nothing even remotely relevant to anything in any "bible" is on my list of "dreams", I adamantly assure you. (Edit: I would give my left nut to see THE ENTIRE 8 BILLION ON THIS PLANET embrace AND PRACTICE 24/7/365...THE GOLDEN RULE !!!!)
Although I quote this song lyric far too often, DC...seems beyond apropos to your statement above....
"You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know"....
thanks, John Barlow, for penning "Black-throated Wind" for the Grateful Dead.