Interesting.
First allow me to comment on the whole APPLE situation. The Bible never describes what the fruit looks like, or gives any other name other than 'tree of the knowledge of good and evil'. Second, it was in the middle of the garden of eden, and there appears to be only one. It doesn't make sense that we would still be eating the same fruit today. Apples are common fruit, this tree seems to be signifigant. Despite how people want to draw the fruit, the fact is we may never know what it looks like, but it is probably safe to say, it's not an APPLE.
Second, Adam and Eve.
Genesis 2 23
The man said,
"This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called 'woman,
for she was taken out of man."
24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Eve had just been created, and God states that they have been UNITED, and calls Eve 'wife'. In fact, earlier in Genesis, God commanded that they be 'fruitful and multiply'. It is probably safe to assume that not only did God consider Adam and Eve married, but that Adam and Eve were having intercourse - becoming one flesh.
Christian's believe the following regarding Original Sin, and reffers to Jewish Law, and scripture.
Hebrews 7
18The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless 19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
Hebrews 8
7For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 8But God found fault with the people and said:
"The time is coming, declares the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
(Which is from Jeremiah 31:31)
31 "The time is coming," declares the LORD,
"when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah.
32 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to [d] them, [e] "
declares the LORD.
33 "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time," declares the LORD.
"I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34 No longer will a man teach his neighbor,
or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,'
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,"
declares the LORD.
"For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more."
Romans 9
1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2 If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, 4 because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
at the risk of cut and pasting all of Hebrews, I will stop here. Read Hebrews.
Hebrews explains a ton from a Christian perspective, connected to what Jewish Law taught.
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