As I said in the previous post, I'm not concerned with the controversy in this thread. If you want to discuss the controversy then please start another thread. This issue is about whether Paul based his instruction on myth or a literal historical event.
Ok well lets take a look at this.
First of all I believe those scriptures are from God and they are sacred. They teach spiritual truths. They have been canonised. Are the creation scriptures a literal historical event or are they a myth ?
(I prefer to say teaching parables)
lets have a look at some of it:
This is from the NIV scholars have indented this and put quotation marks round it. That's what they do if they think it's not literal.
Genesis 3
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
16 To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labour you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
Well I feel sorry for the animal, the snake, why is he cursed more than other animals ?
The worm slithers was the worm cursed also ?
What about the other animals closed to the ground are they eating dust also ?
I thought snakes were an important part of the ecosystem.
The snakes not really a snake is he ? He's symbolically Satan isn't he ?
What does verse 15 mean ?
There's strife between Woman and the snake. Eventually the woman's offspring will crush the snake's head. (man will triumph over evil) But the snake will strike the male offspring's heel (could this be symbolic of Christ?)
In the final analysis, we must say that the complete biblical picture does reveal a difference in the significance of the terms. Christ’s death for human sin was, in effect, a wound rendered by Satan. But the Lord’s resurrection, exaltation, and final victory will destroy the devil’s revolting efforts (Rom. 8:20-21; 1 Cor. 15:26; Col. 2:15; Heb. 2:14; 1 Jn. 3:8; Rev. 20:10).
This is wonderful isn't it. It's symbolising Christ all that time ago when it was written.
Your serious your saying it's not a parable ?
Paul is referencing a parable !!!!
