Since Jesus believed Adam and Eve were real people

[JehovahsWitness]

Since Jesus believed Adam and Eve were real people, shouldn't Christians follow his lead and do the same?

[Elijah John]

[Replying to post 1 by JehovahsWitness]

No, it just shows that on this matter, he was a man of his culture and his times. The fact that he was mistaken about this is evidence he is not God.

[Elijah John]

Since Jesus believed Adam and Eve were real people, shouldn't Christians follow his lead and do the same?

Theologically liberal Christians believe that the human Jesus was a man of his times, and that the Garden story was their cultural myth. Although he may have known the the mind of God on Spiritual matters, he also had human limitations, and most probably would not have known what was going on in China at the time, nor would he have known about rocket science.

The human Jesus was not omniscient, and could not have been blamed for accepting his cultural myths as literal.

[JehovahsWitness]

[Replying to post 1 by JehovahsWitness]

I just realized I forgot to add the reference: Matthew 19:4

[Wootah]

[Replying to post 1 by JehovahsWitness]

Yes. That's why I am a bible literalist.

People seem to have no problem believing in God but in the next breath they doubt everything from creation onwards that He said He did.

This includes people that believe that Jesus is not God.

[JehovahsWitness]

[Replying to post 4 by Wootah]

Well I don't believe Jesus is God but I do find it difficult to see why people believe God can create the universe out of "nothing" but cannot create two human beings out of dust.

[JehovahsWitness]

Since Jesus believed Adam and Eve were real people, shouldn't Christians follow his lead and do the same?

Theologically liberal Christians believe that the human Jesus was a man of his times, and that the Garden story was their cultural myth. Although he may have known the the mind of God on Spiritual matters, he also had human limitations, and most probably would not have known what was going on in China at the time, nor would he have known about rocket science.

The human Jesus was not omniscient, and could not have been blamed for accepting his cultural myths as literal.

Would one of those "cultural myths" be him being raised from the dead?

[JP Cusick]

Since Jesus believed Adam and Eve were real people, shouldn't Christians follow his lead and do the same?

I say that Jesus referencing the old scriptures does not mean that Jesus preached them as being literally real and true.

Matthew 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

He referenced reading the scripture, Jesus did not say = Do not ye know this as true ...

We could ask similar as like = Do ye remember what the Wizard told to the Cowardly Lion?

As such we would be asking a true question but we would not be saying that the Wizard or the Lion were a real story.

[JehovahsWitness]

[Replying to post 7 by JP Cusick]

So you don't believe Jesus believed the Hebrew bible to be true?

[JP Cusick]

So you don't believe Jesus believed the Hebrew bible to be true?

I suspect that Jesus viewed the scriptures in the same way as we do today - by seeing metaphors as metaphors and seeing the symbolism as symbolism and taking the literal parts as literal parts.

Jesus got it right, and Jesus expressed it correctly - but whether you view it as true or not is up to you.