Decoding the Story of Adam & Eve
I once asked an older, wiser man and furthermore a very religious one if he believed the Bible was literally true. His response was ‘yes, everything besides Genesis and Revelations’. Indeed, when you look at the first and especially last books of the Bible, it's obvious that they’re largely symbolic in nature. Revelations is the recounting of a divinely-inspired hallucination. Meanwhile, Genesis harps back to a time when detailed information was relayed orally rather than being written down. The Bible is a complex collection of books, and ultimately I would agree that the New Testament is more pertinent on the Old. As perennial sinners, knowing how to rectify our relationship with the Lord is of greater importance than being versed in the religious/spiritual history of Ancient Israel. But at the same time, the Bible is so long and complex that it’s easy for readers to get ahead of themselves. For example, the story Adam & Eve is loaded wit...