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I’ve posted some as-yet uncommented-on Q&As on Gen 2 and 4: Genesis 2 Q & A Genesis 4 Q&A Here’s hoping that any discussion they spark remains useful and cordial.

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Not sure which post you are talking about here, Gerhard.

Agreed. One thing I have learned through my repeated readings of the Bible, and much more in writing this Q&A, is just how much is clearly set out in scripture but not said in so many words. One just needs to ask the right questions in the right places.... But the whole creation groaning and...

The Gap Theory depends on the notion that the relationship between the clause (1) "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" and (2) "And the earth was without form, and void" was sequential, or temporal. First the creation; then (later on) the formless void. But that is not the...

Well, I agree with all of this, but "post" above was strenuously insisting that since God does not specifically say that Adam was cursed, but only that the ground was, therefore he was not actually cursed. I wouldn't insist strongly on the point, but I think we are in the right here.

I.e., intelligently speak. Not yet being cursed to lose their legs (as I think) doesn’t explain why this serpent could speak and with intelligence. And I’m just laying out the possibilities to begin. I’ll let you decide for yourself, but nothing you’ve said so far shows that. Which of course...

Cain’s Descendants How many people were in the world when the city of Enoch was founded (Gen. 4:17)? How did Cain get a wife? Evidently there were more than the ones specifically named in the text so far. After all, Cain had a wife, who would evidently have to be a near relation (a sister or a...

Cain’s crime and punishment Why did Cain kill Abel (Gen. 4:8)? For the same reasons he was angry and downcast. He was likely overcome by the emotions of envy and wounded pride. What significance did the murder (Gen. 4:8) hold for Jesus himself, as reported by Matthew and Luke? Similar remarks...

<< Back to Genesis 3 This is another installment in my Q&A Bible study, which ends up resembling a commentary. I don't pretend this to be a definitive commentary but instead non-authoritative study notes by a humble student of the Bible. Read more about what I am up to if you like, and feel...

To everyone else: it might be shameful and unpleasant, but it isn’t irrevocably damnable to be cursed. How could it, if Christ was “made a curse for us” (Gal 3:13)? But I (and plenty of commentators) find it just obvious that death, pain, enmity, toil, and having Satan as an enemy are all cursed...

I’m done with “post”, who is seems incapable of close exegesis of text or polite debate about exegetical differences. Ignored.

I’ll have to add something about this; I forgot to mention the legs.

This is pointless. You just keep repeating yourself and failing to engage with my arguments, which I think are more deeply rooted in the words of scripture than yours are—not less. You need to distinguish the plain words of the Bible itself from your dogmatically-held interpretations of it...

Well, I was challenging you on a point I’d never heard of before, which you were extremely dogmatic about. If it were an important theory, one of these commentaries (and introductions, etc.) would have mentioned it, surely. None did. Odd. And sometimes people do come up with strange readings all...