I suspect that mine, and yours if they’re the same, don’t say a lot more than what they do say. But there’s a difference between what I say my bible says and what you say our bibles say, and I’m betting–based on what you’ve posted in this thread so far–that the difference is irreconcilable. We can both now put it on the shelf and forget about it.
I don’t doubt that you are.
That’s irreconcilable difference #2.
If “humans as ‘image bearers’” is a topic that you’re interested in discussing, I recommend that you go to Antoine Suarez’ thread "A.Suarez’s Treatment on a Pope’s Formulation for Original Sin’s Transmission! to roll that hockey puck around on the ice.
To quote someone whom I respect very much,
Of course it doesn’t. I just wanted to make sure you didn’t think I was emotionally attached to the names “Adam” and “Eve”.
Whoopty-do. I’ve played with “Captital ‘O’” Orthodox Jews on a bumper-car court elsewhere and was so exasperated by bending over backwards while trying to engage in civil conversation and banter, that I had to walk away. I’ll take your word for it that “Orthodox Jews don’t believe that the “whatever you call them” were the first humans or the ancestors of all humans.” IMO, they’re difficult to communicate with and, given their esteem for the 45th U.S. president, discourage attempts to do so more often than not.
Meanwhile, there’s still the issue of what what Genesis has to say about the Fall to contend with.
IMO, it says, essentially, that:
- Once upon a time, all that existed was Good,
- Something not good, involving the earliest humans whatever their names were, happened,
- Without divine intervention, the not good definitely ain’t getting better and is only going to get worse.