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Originally Posted by kaaryn  Thanks for that, Karma...
Interesting side note about animals becoming carnivorous at that point. I was talking to someone a little while ago and that exact topic came up. When the animals were first created, they were all docile, and they all ate plants. Only later did they become dangerous. I hadn't thought about the *when* of that, but I suppose it would all have been part of the Fall.
FWIW - I don't really think God got all angry and cursed man (and woman) kind. I think the more accurate way to put it would be that Adam and Eve, through their choice to put themselves above God, in doing so also chose to step outside of His umbrella of protection. Even today, I have times when things are good and I know that I'm doing what I should, and then there are times when I've made decisions that weren't so great, and in the process opened myself to possible consequences that I wouldn't have wanted and that I know God would want me not to have to go through. Some people would call that semantics, I suppose. |
My interpretation is almost identical to yours. Even as a "fable"....I don't see it as an angry God, more of a disappointed one and that Adam and Eve would need to deal with consequences of their own actions. Just as a parent is disappointed and upset that a child must deal with their consequences in life, God felt similar. Not cursing the humans, but sort of having no other choice.
Now, back to my thinking they are stories to learn from and explanations of the unexplainable.....it does lend itself to drama and a good lessons for life about tempation, cunning, shame, authority, right and wrong, diversity of creatures, similarities of creatures, and "parenting". More, I'm sure, but I'm tired.
