Quote:
Originally Posted by Nell
As I said "...She (Jane) also noted that nowhere does the Scripture say that God put Eve out of the garden." If you have a verse stating otherwise, please quote it. It's hardly "potentially presumptuous" to suggest that the woman was not put out when the Bible nowhere says she was... unless you have a verse that says otherwise.
Further, as Jane has theorized, Eve chose to follow Adam out of the Garden.
|
This is where the whole premise looks like an attempt to swing the pendulum rather than find truth.
The very idea that the garden was open to Eve but not Adam is patently ridiculous. Under this premise, there would be no more human race. Under the standard reading of Genesis, at that point there was only Adam and Eve. Separating them would be tantamount to the extermination of the human race.
I'm sorry, but there is a reason that getting too embroiled emotionally in trying to get a result is a dangerous place to be. It leads to absurd conjecturing (theorizing).
I will agree that there is nothing stating either way is true. But the outcome of your way to look at it v the outcome of the other is rather implausible. The difference between plausible and implausible is a valid reason to reject one in favor of the other when there is no direct evidence for either.
You would do well to stick with the problem of translations resulting in the erroneous mistreatment of women. Keep away from fantasizing about a world in which women get things right and men get it all wrong. As it is, you are showing how it is that women are just as prone to reading favor to themselves into the Bible. Looks more like a mea culpa than some important revelation or substantive theory.