Posted: Nov 09, 2010 7:29 am
Onyx8 wrote:If that's the case then it could mean absolutely anything you choose it to mean so you might as well just make up your own stories.
Not at all. It has a message and that message is a theological message. Genesis 1 and 2 theological message summed up in a nutshell: God created everything, including man and woman, but man and woman were sinful and disobedient to their creator and thus were separated from God. Genesis 2 also tells how death was the consequence of ones sin. <- The theological message which is the ONLY message that the Bible portrays. It is not a history book nor a science textbook, but is is a theological book and thus must be taken and read as one.