The Garden of Eden

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can you tell us how the garden of Eden is literal yet the trees in it are not? for it seems to me to be unscriptural and completely without a shred of Biblical evidence, nor could you cite any references when asked to do so making your assertion here quite hypocritical. Do you normally accuse other people of the same crimes you yourself commit? what does that make you?

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no you have not i have searched the thread and cannot find a single Biblical scripture you have cited, so tell us in just a few words, how is it possible for the garden of Eden to be literal and the trees in it not to be? If you will not tell us then I must assume that you have no evidence and you simply made it up making you a hypocrite in the process.

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you mean like saying that the garden of Eden is literal and the trees in it are not, wouldn't it be a strange garden with no literal trees? what about the plants? were they literal? or the animals? were they literal?

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
and yet when asked you can provided a single iota of evidence to substantiate your claim. Do you really expect the people here to take you at your word when you have been caught making similar truth statements without a shred of evidence?

It's just common sense. Everyone here [who thinks the creation story and the Garden of Eden story are both "literally true"] can certainly ~ indeed, without a moment's doubt ~ "take me at [my] word" when I say I think it's just obvious common sense that they're allegorical. If it happens to be your personal opinion that these passages are "literally true", then so be it. I have encountered Christians with your viewpoint before.

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so where does it state that the tree of life was not literal? were the angels who guarded it also not literal? why would God post symbolic angels to prevent the way for a literal couple to gain access to the tree of life if it was merely symbolic? nothing you have said here makes any sense, its a like a hotch potch of gobbledygook all cobbled together.

Originally posted by FMF
It's also "obvious from what [the Bible says] God told Adam on the day he ate of the tree" that the story is allegorical.

Explain what is the allegory or shut up.

Originally posted by RJHinds
Explain what is the allegory or shut up.

an excellent suggestion.

Originally posted by RJHinds
Explain what is the allegory or shut up.

It's obvious. And I have already stated what I think the allegory represented.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
an excellent suggestion.

I'm just doing the same as galveston75 who said at the top of page 52 that he is "just seeing the obvious" when he thinks the stories are "literally true"; I am also stating that I am "just seeing the obvious". What galveston75 thinks is "obvious" and what I think is "obvious" may not be the same, but this does not prevent us from trading opinions.