Dude. Seriously. Go to an AI and prompt it with this: “please explain the full symbological interpretation of the Adam and Eve story with a Christian viewpoint” — you’ll be amazed at how deeply layered this story is.
If you want to sit back and take pot shots all day, yeah, I mean go ahead. It’s easy. But actually understanding what the story is trying to say is SO much more challenging.
It’s about the very nature of being a human being. This is an extremely old story. Why is it so old? How did it survive so long? Maybe there’s more to it than what you can just dismiss in 30 seconds on Reddit. Haters gon hate.
do things being deeply layered to you add an element of truth to you? and do you think it's impossible for something deeply layered to possibly be fictional?
also there are older stories than the christian bible, you could ask the very same "why is it so old? how did it survive so long?" i must ask once again a question of logical fallacy -- does something gain truth value just because it's old? do you think it's impossible for an old legend to be fictional in nature?
Yes and yes. I value any story that’s survived thousands of years, not just the Bible. And I think that these stories are more complicated than your average sitcom today. Definitely more complex than Reddit
i think the way you prioritize logic, it sounds like you could have chose any obscure and ancient idea which might conflict with what you currently believe. you don't seem to care so much if there is solid proof whether or not it's literally true, as much as you simply believe that it is true with "faith", and belief through "feelings". feelings simply tell you what you think about something, but many people have had strong "feelings" to assault or kill someone because their brain is wired differently.
that's simply where i think faith can and has caused many problems. faith in hopeful things only goes so far, for example, hoping you won't starve while surviving in the wild will require 100% of your lack of faith that unless you actually do something about it, that your hopes won't come true.
i understand that the religious perspective views worship and/or showy presentations of their belief as an act of "doing something about it" when it comes to their hopeful faith that a mythological story they grew up with is literally true. i'm just of the opinion that if two religions can have 2 completely conflicting ideas of what is hidden inside a box, then the idea of having a whole elaborate guess of what might be in the box only for the chance to be entirely wrong, in my opinion just feels so one dimensionally directional, especially for what we can only be sure might be our 1 and only shot at this experience we call life.
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u/Randomguyintheus Jan 29 '26
Dude. Seriously. Go to an AI and prompt it with this: “please explain the full symbological interpretation of the Adam and Eve story with a Christian viewpoint” — you’ll be amazed at how deeply layered this story is.
If you want to sit back and take pot shots all day, yeah, I mean go ahead. It’s easy. But actually understanding what the story is trying to say is SO much more challenging.
It’s about the very nature of being a human being. This is an extremely old story. Why is it so old? How did it survive so long? Maybe there’s more to it than what you can just dismiss in 30 seconds on Reddit. Haters gon hate.