Perndog is right. That is what it says. Not what you believed it meant. The
Tree of All Knowledge did contain the knowledge of God. And I am pretty damn sure he knew what sin was.
When it says the Tree of All Knowledge it was actually talking about all knowledge. That includes sin, obediance, weather patterns, breeding patterns of the afircan spotted treeslug, ect..
No, we would not be able to become like God. You are right about this. We would not be able to change the directions of the winds or the lifespan of a giraffe. But it did contain how to sin.
Concerning nudity: no, it is not neccesarily a sin. But Adam and Eve learned shame. And they believed they had to cloth themselves.
And now for a good segway into my next point:
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Is that what the ancient Hebrew said? What about the Greek and Aramaic?
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Yes. He said image in Hebrew version. The Hebrew version was the original version of the Old Testament. The Greek version was the original version of the New Testament (that is the version I read).
Aramaic is irrelavent.
Other than Revelations, everything is to be taken literally in the Bible. There is no symbolic meaning to the story of the garden of Eden. The Hebrew people were very literal scholors. They
didn't write deep works of liturature that left you to make your own conclusion of what it symbolized. It is still up to you on what the meaning, or lesson is behind all them is of course.
You really just need to read it for yourself.
I am not saying the Bible is true or it is not true. Just what it says.
*straying from post*
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Does that mean he has an a appendix and a tailbone
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You are saying that Jesus didn't have an appendix or a tailbone?
Jesus has existed all along. The three have always been. God didn't just multiply like an amoeba (no childish jokes please).