Subject: what fruit did eve eat? |
Bible Note: God's Ambassage, Do you actually claim to know what God would or would not have done in a given circumstance? Is 55:8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts. Your argument is "we know we can allegorize this passage because of what God didn't say". This type of Biblical interpretation gives you complete license to interpret the Bible any way that you want. All through scripture, there are as many things that God didn't say as you can imagine, and for each one, you can assign a symbolic, or allegorical, or whatever meaning you want. But this is completely without foundation. The fact is, we did "hear about it in God's reaction". He said to Adam, "Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" You've got another problem to solve also. If Satan was the father of Cain, conceived while they were in the garden, you still have Gen. 4:1. Gen 4:1 Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, "I have gotten a manchild with the help of the LORD." "The man", not the serpent, had relations with Eve, AFTER they left the garden, and as a result, Cain was conceived, and born. When Jesus told the Pharisees that they were of their father the devil, do you think that He meant that Satan had slept with each of their mothers? You would also rob us of the first prophecy of Christ's virgin birth. Doesn't the "seed of the woman" strike you as a very odd expression? Mark |