OzSpen
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Jack,
With that kind of statement you provide evidence that the content of Scriptures is ignored by you.
What does the biblical text state about why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden?
22 Then the Lord God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23 therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life (Gen 3:22-24).
When you invent a mythological interpretation of Gen 3, you look past the evidence in the text. When the man "has become like one of us ... knowing good and evil ... [God] drove out the man". That's what God did and it is very different from your interpretation of Genesis as mythology.
In your post, you provide zero evidence from the biblical text. What was provided? Your imposition of your view on the text. These are your presuppositions that are not stated in the biblical text of Genesis:
1. "I do not read the Genesis myth as a fall from an original state of perfection into sin and death."
2. "The first couple were completely innocent and naive creatures. They were certainly capable of making a mistake but, without knowing good from evil, they lacked even the ability to sin. That ability came only with them eating of the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil"."
3. "Our mythical first couple graduated from animal status into to fully self aware human beings capable of making moral judgements. This is not an Original Sin story but rather an Original Blessing story that should be celebrated." "An Original Blessing story" that brought corruption into the whole world!
That's not what Romans 8:18–22 states:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. the revealing of the sons of God. was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. the whole creation thas been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now (ESV).
That doesn't sound too much like "Original Blessing" to me.
4. "We are not a people fallen from an original state of perfection into sin and death. What we are is a people that is still evolving. We are no longer "just animals" but something more".
Jack, you are trying to convince us of the content of your theologically liberal agenda. I don't buy into it because it lacks biblical content and authority. It comes with the authority of JackRT and Jack Spong.
Oz
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