Adam and Eve Started the End of Christianity



For good entertainment, I recommend reading justification for making Adam and Eve an actual account of actual people. The link author correctly identified the dilemma.  If one regards the story as history, many will regard the believer as bonkers. If the tale is dismissed as a folk tale, much of Christianity goes out the window. 

The link author also lamented the faithful not buying as fact the Adam and Eve folk tale because by doubting its historical validity also inserts doubts about the Original Sin. As we all know, the Adam and Eve tale informs us there was no sin before Eve foolishly bit into the apple and encouraged the not-so-smart Adam to follow her example. Without that story, the link author suggests, we have no record of when sin was introduced to humans. Without sin there is no eternity in hell. Without eternity in hell there is no club to control people and get their tithe. The link author almost panics at the prospect of not treating Adam and Eve and their introduction of sin as a fundamental fact. If Adam and Eve are fictional the entire Christian of sin and hell are fiction. 

I remember making light of Adam and Eve a decade ago when I started this blog. A person who argued and criticized me regularly asked why I picked on this story. I explained that if we find story after story that is considered to be history is not history the entire house of cards comes down. He said that could not happen. 

Certainly there are Christians who do not believe the literal Adam and Eve or even the literal hell. But for a large part of the faith Adam and Eve are the foundation and everything else is built on top of it.

Perhaps the "original sin", the act that took people away from God, were those who made up the not believable and not defendable Adam and Eve tale.


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