Is the Adam and Eve story to be understood literally? Why is it so important for the account of Adam and Eve to be interpreted literally?

if not literally, how else can it be interpreted? cuz i don't see it as a proverb...

Aye, why not?

OLAADEGBU:
Is the Adam and Eve story to be understood literally? Why is it so important for the account of Adam and Eve to be interpreted literally?

I don't think so...
Genesis is not a literal story

Dharniel:


if not literally, how else can it be interpreted? cuz i don't see it as a proverb...

Roman Catholics for instance, believe it is allegorical.

gunpoint:


I don't think so...
Genesis is not a literal story

Why not, are you Roman Catholic?

OLAADEGBU:


Why not, are you Roman Catholic?

Is it true that Roman catholics do not take it literally? I need an objective answer.

Scholar8200:


Is it true that Roman catholics do not take it literally? I need an objective answer.

Let's wait for them to give their own side of the story. Hopefully.

Man has become intelligent, Man has understood that the Adam n eve ish na Hebrew Myths n Legends.

Scholar8200:


Is it true that Roman catholics do not take it literally? I need an objective answer.

Their Pope has spoken. God is not a magician.

OLAADEGBU:


Their Pope has spoken. God is not a magician.

Interesting; still waiting for an affirmation or denial by a NL

Scholar8200:


Interesting; still waiting for an affirmation or denial by a NL

Here is a list of NL catholics to either affirm or deny the claim: italo, btoks, MariaGoretti, dmandy, SalC, Syncan, Rich4god, FrancisTony, Bluerange, Debbie, Damerry, Ubenedictus, Jnrbayano, Kamsified, Titoetal, Jennydoris, Vest, HurricaneChris, MariaGorreti, Aizenosa, Babestell, e.t.c.

There is no doubt to those who have studied the scriptures most deeply that the account from God is true. The Bible is without error. A man Adam was created from dust and the breath of God. The woman was called Eve. She was made from his rib to serve him (helpmeet as the scholars informs us). Therefoe Adam and Eve are the mother and father of us all.



To think otherwise is to risk eternal torture in hellfire. Be ye not wise in your own conceits!

OLAADEGBU:


Here is a list of NL catholics to either affirm or deny the claim: italo, btoks, MariaGoretti, dmandy, SalC, Syncan, Rich4god, FrancisTony, Bluerange, Debbie, Damerry, Ubenedictus, Jnrbayano, Kamsified, Titoetal, Jennydoris, Vest, HurricaneChris, MariaGorreti, Aizenosa, Babestell, e.t.c.

Yes, who called me.

I am a proud Catholic. I am a Nairalander.

Wetin happen?

dmandy:


Yes, who called me.

I am a proud Catholic. I am a Nairalander.

Wetin happen?

Yes. I conjured you up to answer the pertinent questions on this thread. Is the story of Adam and Eve allegorical or literal?

OLAADEGBU:


Yes. I conjured you up to answer the pertinent questions on this thread. Is the story of Adam and Eve allegorical or literal?

Okay,

I think it's literal.

dmandy:


Okay,

I think it's literal.

That's interesting. May I ask why you think so?

dmandy:


Okay,

I think it's literal.

Any other catholic seconding this before we move on with the thread?

Scholar8200:
Any other person seconding this before we call it a thread?

Speak in English

dmandy:


Speak in English

Unfortunately nairaland is not like whatsapp where audio messages can be sent!

Did I just inspire somebody?

OLAADEGBU:


That's interesting. May I ask why you think so?

It's a creation story, it ought to be literal.

If your confusion is about the use of day 1 and day 2, instead of the following day there is no need to be. To me, what matters is that it took a day to undertake each of those. It may not necessarily mean sequentially. Although what do I know?

Scholar8200:
Unfortunately nairaland is not like whatsapp where audio messages can be sent!

Did I just inspire somebody?

Yes brother you did.

Okay, write in English.

dmandy:


It's a creation story, it ought to be literal.

If your confusion is about the use of day 1 and day 2, instead of the following day there is no need to be. To me, what matters is that it took a day to undertake each of those. It may not necessarily mean sequentially. Although what do I know?

So you think it might not be 6 consecutive days?

OLAADEGBU:


So you think it might not be 6 consecutive days?

Not necessarily. What do you think yourself?

dmandy:


Not necessarily. What do you think yourself?

I need to fully understand what you meant by saying that the creation story should be understood literally before I tell you what I think.

OLAADEGBU:


I need to fully understand what you meant by saying that the creation story should be understood literally before I tell you what I think.

It happened, not symbolic. Adam and Eve were real.

dmandy:


It happened, not symbolic. Adam and Eve were real.

Is this a uniformed teaching in the Roman Catholic Church or this is just what you think?

OLAADEGBU:


Their Pope has spoken. God is not a magician.

Is He?

OLAADEGBU:


Is this a uniformed teaching in the Roman Catholic Church or this is just what you think?

Yes Catholic church believes its a real story. But the consecutive part is mine.

OLAADEGBU:
Is the Adam and Eve story to be understood literally? Why is it so important for the account of Adam and Eve to be interpreted literally?

The story of Adam and Eve is a literal story. They were literal living beings with souls.

Gen 2v7 -And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And remember also that Jesus is the second Adam. If the second Adam is a literal being, who came to redeem us from the consequences of the sin of the first Adam. Then the first Adam must have been a literal being who sinned.

Secondly, if Adam and Eve were an allegory, then from where do we trace the genealogy of mankind?

There is no account of God ever going back to the ground to create a new set of mankind from which we can trace the literal lineage of man, if indeed Adam and Eve were myths or an allegory.

All the genealogy in scripture traced the genealogy of man all the way to Adam or from Adam.

Luke 3v38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

If Adam and Eve were myths or allegory, the genealogy would not be possible, because it would mean that literal beings were born of allegorical beings, Adam and Eve.

The only other option would therefore be to conclude that every other bible character and story were allegories. Noah and the flood, the catching up of Enoch, Abraham, Lot, etc. Because they were born of Adam and Eve.

But Enoch was called the seventh from Adam, meaning Enoch, a literal being, was seventh generation of the lineage of Adam.

Jude 1v14 -And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

Adam must have been a literal being for him to be the seventh generation parent of another literal being.

The scripture did make sure claims that all these bible characters were literal beings. And that the serpent did really beguile Eve (2Cor 11v3)

Literal men were condemned to death by the sins of a literal man, Adam. Not the sin of an allegory. That is why they needed to be saved by the obedience of another literal man, the last Adam.

Adam and Eve and their lives are literal stories, not allegories.

Shalom.

OLAADEGBU:


Is this a uniformed teaching in the Roman Catholic Church or this is just what you think?

You see how human beings communicate?

I am answering your questions now, you are happy. Throwing in more. But if I ask you one now, you will go like

ayoku777 has explained it all.

No need for assumptions.