The words in Genesis 3 also undermine the Eve is to blame narrative. The serpent basically tells her the truth: if she eats she will not die, and if she eats she will gain knowledge. She eats, does not die, hands Adam the fruit and he eats. Nothing in Genesis 3 implies Eve seduced, pressured, or otherwise forced Adam to eat. He had his own agency and God had told him the same thing he told Eve. As the article points out, it’s New Testament reinterpretation that evolves the story’s meaning beyond what is present in the text. The same is true of the serpent. Genesis 3 does not say the serpent is the devil or otherwise evil. God let the serpent into the garden and the only description we have of the serpent’s character is that it is “subtle.” The devil connection is made later in the New Testament, after dualism came into vogue.
My theory is that many Americans are caught in a web woven thousands of years ago by herder warriors who would fight each other over the freshly grown pastures needed to sustain their way of life.
The comforting shawl, warp of patriarchy, weft of the concept of sin, was seized upon by Constatine of Rome to supplant Greek religoius constructs so to further enhance his grip on his citizens and their world.
The wave and wash of our American history has imbedded this belief in many of our minds, which has contributed much to today's malaise, and which is being used in ways very similar to those of Constatine.
Yeah fundamentalist like to think the story of Eden was real and it’s not it’s a story but two things they leave out God punished both of them and the other is that Eve was created from Adam’s rid not his foot not his head a complete equal.
But all anyone focuses on is Eve caused the fall and again it didn’t happen until Adam ate the forbidden fruit too! So the story is supposed to be of equality has been progressed by scared males not being in control of women and treating them as a commodity. The early church set them free …… but not as free as they should be. I hope it changes I hope all of Society will realize the importance of women in society and the true power and their worth comes back into existence trump doing away with the achievements that women have done has caused a lot of harm because of fear . Women rule!
The words in Genesis 3 also undermine the Eve is to blame narrative. The serpent basically tells her the truth: if she eats she will not die, and if she eats she will gain knowledge. She eats, does not die, hands Adam the fruit and he eats. Nothing in Genesis 3 implies Eve seduced, pressured, or otherwise forced Adam to eat. He had his own agency and God had told him the same thing he told Eve. As the article points out, it’s New Testament reinterpretation that evolves the story’s meaning beyond what is present in the text. The same is true of the serpent. Genesis 3 does not say the serpent is the devil or otherwise evil. God let the serpent into the garden and the only description we have of the serpent’s character is that it is “subtle.” The devil connection is made later in the New Testament, after dualism came into vogue.
My theory is that many Americans are caught in a web woven thousands of years ago by herder warriors who would fight each other over the freshly grown pastures needed to sustain their way of life.
The comforting shawl, warp of patriarchy, weft of the concept of sin, was seized upon by Constatine of Rome to supplant Greek religoius constructs so to further enhance his grip on his citizens and their world.
The wave and wash of our American history has imbedded this belief in many of our minds, which has contributed much to today's malaise, and which is being used in ways very similar to those of Constatine.
Yeah fundamentalist like to think the story of Eden was real and it’s not it’s a story but two things they leave out God punished both of them and the other is that Eve was created from Adam’s rid not his foot not his head a complete equal.
But all anyone focuses on is Eve caused the fall and again it didn’t happen until Adam ate the forbidden fruit too! So the story is supposed to be of equality has been progressed by scared males not being in control of women and treating them as a commodity. The early church set them free …… but not as free as they should be. I hope it changes I hope all of Society will realize the importance of women in society and the true power and their worth comes back into existence trump doing away with the achievements that women have done has caused a lot of harm because of fear . Women rule!