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No chance it was a banana. If it indeed was a "jungle out there" bananas wouldn't be tempting as they would grow all over. An apple, something not indigenous (+1 vocab) to the region would have been much more tempting. Eve wouldn't have been the only one to fall for an apple (Snow white)
Apples are SO eurocentric. As an anthropologist I must take a stand against this kind of cultural thinking - I stick with the indigenous jungle fruit, in this case for the convenience (+1 vocabulary) it must be a banana.
...so Adam and Eve got in trouble for picking and eating an imaginary piece of fruit?
Hey, I'll take it step further and say that Adam and Even were probably symbollic as well. Although I understand that the Bible is considered to be a historically significant text in that many of the people and places mentioned therein are known to have existed, especially in the New Testament, I've always assumed it to be mostly allegorical and not historically accurate.
Did the entire world descend from two real people named Adam and Eve? Sorry, but no sale...
I like it hot, why do you think I'm going to Africa in the first place? Hell can't be much worse, and YOU, SIGHTLESS will have a boring forever up there because all the fun is going to be down below where the parteefreekz are going to end up
Hey, I'll take it step further and say that Adam and Even were probably symbollic as well. Although I understand that the Bible is considered to be a historically significant text in that many of the people and places mentioned therein are known to have existed, especially in the New Testament, I've always assumed it to be mostly allegorical and not historically accurate.
Did the entire world descend from two real people named Adam and Eve? Sorry, but no sale...
again, I agree with you... but I'm trying to look at it from a die-hard Christian perspective. they believe Adam and Eve ate a forbidden fruit, which introduced sin to all of humanity. While these aren't my beliefs, I'm just trying to understand why people hold a story to be so true when it's told 10 different ways with the different versions of Christianity. Some Christians believe it was a fig. Others believe it to be the tamarind/grapefuit. Others believe it to be wheat. Others believe it to be an apple. They all call it something else, but they're all Christian. They all have a book that is absolute knowledge on the subject, but even the Eastern and Western Christianity stories don't add up. fcking cults.
it really has to do with the kings and queens of old times. each christian based religion is derived from one group of people fighting the changes of the king and queen of the time. when the royals changed the bibles the hard liners always broke off to maintain thier beleifs. judiaism>catholicism>protestant breakoffs. so it depends on the sect and the time the sect broke away from the main groups.
your life is an occasion, rise to it.
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yup aliens and giving money. great religion. i want to see confucious (spelling) descend from the skies one day and be like """ hey, im god, you are all wrong""" then go to rome and islamabad and change thier leadership into goats and camals. that would be funny.
your life is an occasion, rise to it.
Join My Chant. new mix. april 09. dirty fuck house.
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I'm trying to look at it from a die-hard Christian perspective.
The problem, though, is that you're trying to reconcile the die-hard Christian perspective and rational thought. It can't be done.
And by the way, I say that with no disrespect intended towards Christians, or any religion. Religious belief is based upon faith, not facts. The Bible includes numerous descriptions of events that are miraculous and should not happen without the intervention of a higher power. That they do not normally happen and do not otherwise make sense, is indicative of their miraculous character when they do occur. At least that's the way I understand it.
The one thing that really confuses me is when Christians try to back up their belief system with purported factual support. Faith is faith. If you're trying to look for facts to support your faith, then it isn't really faith, is it?
The problem, though, is that you're trying to reconcile the die-hard Christian perspective and rational thought. It can't be done.
Originally posted by toasty
The one thing that really confuses me is when Christians try to back up their belief system with purported factual support. Faith is faith. If you're trying to look for facts to support your faith, then it isn't really faith, is it?
my mom pulls that shit all the time. then I tell her I'm going to go worship Xenu and that her religion is wrong. it usually shuts her up
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