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if you take Genesis 2:7 out of the creation story does it change?
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EMPATHY

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June 9, 2016 - 9:41 pm

I am wondering this because to me it changes if you remove it. but the meaning is vastly different.

It seems to be even more lively if you read it as if Adam is a monkey along his evolutionary journey.

it’s labeled another account supposing to make a distinction between animals and men which was caused when he made a choice

if adam and the animals are on the same journey why say it twice?

Gen 4 says that eve produced a man.

if you consider how many billions of years it took for the laws of evolution to create them.

Therein lies the the reason God id so interested in us.

 

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Bgipson

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June 10, 2016 - 12:46 pm

EMPATHY said
I am wondering this because to me it changes if you remove it. but the meaning is vastly different.

It seems to be even more lively if you read it as if Adam is a monkey along his evolutionary journey.

it’s labeled another account supposing to make a distinction between animals and men which was caused when he made a choice

if adam and the animals are on the same journey why say it twice?

Gen 4 says that eve produced a man.

if you consider how many billions of years it took for the laws of evolution to create them.

Therein lies the the reason God id so interested in us.

 

Thoughts?  

So your thought is that ancient Jews were writing about evolution?

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tgeorgescu

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July 22, 2016 - 8:04 pm

Symbolic interpretation is Turn-Anything-Into-Anything-Else. When you read something literally, the meaning is not fixed, but at least severely constrained. When you interpret something symbolically, all bets are off.

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