John from Kentucky -
Thank you for your response to my Post:
Not all of us believe the Adam and Eve creation story is literal. The Spirit has given some the understanding that the story is a metaphor or story.
Adam is the Hebrew word for mankind. Eve is the mother of all living. If Eve only goes back 6,000 years then she is not the mother of all living, only the mother of some.
Just as the seven days of creation is not literal but symbolic, so are the other aspects of the creation story symbolic. The contrast between eating herbs versus meat is also symbolic. The symbolism is brought out in the New Testament.
Jesus said His words are Spirit and they are Life.
If you can only understand the Scriptures on a physical, literal level, then so be it. You cannot go beyond what the Spirit has given you. But the time is coming to grow up and put off childish things. Ask God to give you deeper understanding of the Spiritual truths of the Scriptures. Only Jesus can reveal the deeper understanding of Scriptures.
I am very sorry indeed - but I really do not understand what you are trying to convey by the above.
If all of the Creation event is all but a metaphor, how can we eat and drink the food and drink of that metaphor?
1. When Jesus died, and was raised from the dead, and went to Heaven, Jesus came back down to Earth (and Jesus had His New Spiritual Body); and Jesus met some of His followers, and He cooked some fish and He (in His Spiritual Body) and they (in their physical bodies) ate the fish.
2. When Jesus went to the desert to be tempted of the devil for 40 days, He did not drink water; but afterwards Jesus needed to drink water.
If the above two Scriptural incidents are true, then there must still be a need for us to eat and drink in order to live on this Earth.
If you saying that the Genesis creation event is all a metaphor; are you also saying that there is nothing at all physical in this creation event?
How can we first have the 'physical' and then the 'spiritual' - if the 'physical' was not 'physical' but a metaphor (representing spiritual things)?
If Adam and Eve were not literal, then how can you and I be literal? Did not all mankind come out from Adam and Eve and / or mankind? Is mankind, and you and I, all metaphors?
I am sure that I am not the only one that has difficulty in understanding your statements.
Also, 'belief' in itself does not equate to 'Truth'. Truth is Truth.
I believe in The Living God.
It is The Living God that reveals Truth to us - hence 'The Truth' will set you free - and 'Love' casteth out fear.
How do I know that 'The Truth' sets me free? I know because, I have experienced it, right here in my literal, physical body that I have my being in.
How do I know that 'Love' casteth out fear? I know because, I have experienced 'Love' and 'Fear' in my own literal physical body, with my heart and mind that dwell in my own physical body.
John, you come across, as saying - 'George', you still do not get it, you look at only the physical, when only the spiritual matters. If I have misunderstood you John, please accept my apologies.
I live and have my being in a physical world; and I know that His Laws are Spiritual (and always have been). I know that His Words are Spirit and they are Life.
Any clarification that you wish to provide me will be greatly appreciated.
Thank You.
Kind Regards.
George