New subject: MODERATION PLEASE!!!

9 Nov 2001

...
  Adam was made in God's own image, not that of a
monkey. 
My only dispute with Adam and Eve (and if anyone wants to have a 
theological debate with me, that is fine, but lets do it civilly and OFF 
LIST, as I can wage arguments for and against the existence of god)...

My dispute is, according to the King James bible (I am specifying a 
version, as there are many, but the King James is the one that seems to 
have been adopted by the mass of Christianity), God made Adam. Then God 
made Eve. Then Adam and Eve had two sons, one killed the other and then 
was banished to a far away land.

Now the obvious problem is, where did the rest of humanity come from... 
the obvious answer, Adam and Eve had additional children that just 
weren't documented. I don't have a problem with that. What I have a 
problem with is, Cain returns to Adam and Eve... with a wife and 
children. But if Adam, Eve, and Cain were the ONLY people on Earth when 
Cain was sent to a far away land... where did he find a wife to have 
children with?

And of course, God can be "proved" and "disproved" (there is actually
no 
one proof one way or the other that has stood up to all tests as far as I 
have found) with no interaction with the bible, which was written by man, 
and thus prone to man's interpretation and man's errors in omission, or 
embellishments, so the whole story of Adam and Eve has no ultimate 
bearing on the existence or lack there of of God, and in fact, can safely 
be disregarded as "folk lore" without damaging the underlying belief 
structure of God.

And that is all I will say on this on list (sorry, but theology debates 
can get very heated very fast and aren't usually a good topic for open 
public debate... although they can be a very interesting philosophy topic 
when rationally discussed in a small open minded civil group.)

-chris

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