Re: THE PROBLEM WITH ADAM?

"Gordon Hudson" wrote:
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> But Cain could not be to blame for Abel's death because there was no
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> and therefire no way of knowing how to kill someone.
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> And who was he afraid of meeting in the land of Nod, if the only people
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> those in the garden of Eden?
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Some people here seem to take those stories too literally, some others
seem to disregard everything which is written in the Bible, and the
"discussion" here takes place mainly between those two groups.
Remember the great Nicholas of Oresme (in the 14th century) who said
that the Bible speaks "'=E1 la maniere de commun parler humain" about
cosmological and astronomical issues. And so it is with the Genesis
altogether. It seems to me that many people haven't advanced to
Oresme's level in their thinking.

--
risto