Subject: Genesis 3:1-7 |
Bible Note: Greetings Paul.. If you read Genesis 3:1-7, it says... "Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?" And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'" But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths." [English Standard Version] After reading and studying the aforementioned passage, I do not find a hint of sexually immorality, any hint of interpreting the serpent as anything but a serpent, or anything to suggest that the fruit from the tree was anything but a piece of fruit from a tree. So there you go. I believe that you are grossly adding your own intentional interpretation to what is so clearly expressed within the text, and that you, and only you, would make such an assertion and take such liberty with these passages. Also, I ask you: can you find one credible scholar to support your point of view?? Genesis was written as a narrative, not as apocalyptic literature, and it should be understood as a narrative. As for raising up your "faults" with Scripture, I have been known on this Forum for doing just that. And I will not hesistate to tell you that you are, in fact, twisting and adding your own interpretations to this Scripture by stating your false assertions about this passage, in which any credible scholar would not support nor find reasonable. - Nolan |