Alan, I have just read your recent blog and felt some bubbling questions. For those of you who don't know Alan's main blog spot, check it out here: http://alansmithonline.com/
So here are some questions for you about the Creation Story in Genesis:
1. Do you believe the Creation Story to be literally true? If so, what are your thoughts on the two differing versions presented in chapters 1 and 2?
2. Do you find the description of Eve in chapter 2 as a "helper" as opposed to a "partner" to be misogynistic simply because of the culture in which it was written or do you believe God views women as less than men?
3. Was man created in God's image, save for the wisdom to differentiate the "knowledge of good and evil", or does God not know the difference between good and evil?
4. Why is nudity now shameful after eating the fruit of knowledge?
5. Why was the serpent cursed for telling the truth?
6. Why did God make Adam and Eve some new clothes? Was he now ashamed of their nudity? Did he not mind it when they were oblivious?
7. Why did God remove them from the Garden and curse all of humanity to a life of labor culminating in death when, in his omnipotent omniscience He knew full well what they would do?
Of course these are some rather basic and simple questions. But since these are questions about the very first chapters of this book upon which you base your entire life, I feel compelled to ask them.
