The Garden of Eden

Originally posted by KellyJay
The wages of sin is death, correct. So we know no dead people were
there at that time. I'm not sure about plants or animals not dying before
the fall, someone else can speak to that.
Kelly

Do you believe the Genesis account of the garden of Eden to be literal?

Originally posted by divegeester
Do you believe the Genesis account of the garden of Eden to be literal?

Yes
Kelly

Originally posted by FMF
Then the story that talks about it happening in six days is an allegory if it is seeking to encapsulate billions and billions of years of natural processes.

No it was created by God in 6 of his days. That is literal and not al allegory.

Originally posted by galveston75
No it was created by God in 6 of his days. That is literal and not al allegory.

If there were a story about people picking cherries in The Orchard of Metaphors but then they started arguing about which ones were the "real" cherries and which were the "not real" cherries ~ meanwhile the Orchard gained a reputation for its disputatious workforce ~ what would this allegory mean?

Originally posted by FMF
If there were a story about people picking cherries in The Orchard of Metaphors but then they started arguing about which ones were the "real" cherries and which were the "not real" cherries ~ meanwhile the Orchard gained a reputation for its disputatious workforce ~ what would this allegory mean?

that you are a spangled drugged balloonist?😵

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
that you are a spangled drugged balloonist?😵

Doesn't this sort of thing belong on the Clans Forum?

Originally posted by FMF
Doesn't this sort of thing belong on the Clans Forum?

oops my bad wrong forum!😵

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
that you are a spangled drugged balloonist?😵

Hey Bro, how's it going?

Originally posted by galveston75
No it was created by God in 6 of his days. That is literal and not al allegory.

In your 'ministry', over the decades, have you ever felt yourself to have "lost" a potential sympathizer or convert when you started insisting that [what even many Christians believe to be] allegories in the Bible are "literally true"?

Originally posted by galveston75
Hey Bro, how's it going?

Its ok brother Gman, not so bad thanks for asking, summer was awesome for us, was scorching compared to what we are used to, had millions of Californian poppies in the garden which basked in the sunshine and were resplendent in their glory, agapanthus was the best ive seen it, flowers were so heavy it keeled over.

Are you still up north? I am playing a dude from Montana, he's originally from California but man what a beautiful place Montana is. I could live up there on the Yukon no problem. Just need to find a way to story my veggie burgers.
😵

Originally posted by FMF
In your 'ministry', over the decades, have you ever felt yourself to have "lost" a potential sympathizer or convert when you started insisting that [what even many Christians believe to be] allegories in the Bible are "literally true"?

sigh. . . .the road leading to life is narrow and few are the ones finding it.😵

Originally posted by divegeester
You still haven't explained how a tree growing out of the ground who's real actual fruit can have the power to not only affect the human "eyes" (not the brain if we are being literal here) in such a way as to enable them to suddenly be able to know good and evil (which are cognitive concepts), but also provide the world with sin.

That's quite and ach ...[text shortened]... the soil and which incidental, despite having all this fruit, immediately went into extinction.

As Galveston is going to show poor forum etiquette and not respond I'll open this point (above) to anyone else.

Originally posted by KellyJay
Yes
Kelly

So was the tree of life also a literal tree?

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
sigh. . . .the road leading to life is narrow and few are the ones finding it.😵

Maybe the road does not to be so wilfully narrow as to require people to accept allegories found in Hebrew folklore as being "literally true".

Originally posted by FMF
Maybe the road does not to be so wilfully narrow as to require people to accept allegories found in Hebrew folklore as being "literally true".

Then adiós amigos, vamos munchachos, the broad road awaits for you. Jesus, Peter and Paul all taught a literal interpretation of these alleged allegories.