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NASB | Genesis 1:27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:27 So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. [Col 3:9, 10; James 3:8, 9] |
Subject: Creation Account: Mythical or Not? |
Bible Note: Hank, You are expressing very wise reasoning as you expressed the subtle dangers of "mythical" interpretations. You Conclude: "... We cannot know whether there was any such thing as a serpent who beguiled Eve, or that Eve even existed. We have no historical proof of Eden or the fall of Adam and Eve. Without any reliable account of the fall, therefore, the doctrine of original sin falls apart and with it the idea that we need a savior, thus making Christ's death on the cross superfluous. ..... So which is it? The account of creation is real, factual, historical, true -- or it is mythical, allegorical, fictitious. Does it make more sense to take God at His word and to believe that what He says is the way it is, or to invent ways of explaining away the things we don't understand or feel uncomfortable with or just flatly refuse to believe or accept? " I wanted to point out that "details" such as the subtleness of the serpent are easily ignored while using the mindset of a "mythical" Garden of Eden. We need to see the dangers of the subtleness of sin and the unacceptable doubt that a non-literal Garden of Eden story brings also. We are warned of this by many scriptures: Proverbs 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. Matthew 26:4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him. Acts 7:19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. Acts 13:10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? 2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. Pastor Glenn |