Garden Of Eden-No Exit spoilers

Hack_Slash · February 17, 2009, 3:01pm

Hey CM, can you point me to your source of this interpretation? I’d be super-interested in reading the entire paper, book, whatever this idea came from.

It’s a goodie.

Seems to fit with Randy Pausch’s explaination of the “head fake” in “The Last Lecture” - his last lecture before dying of cancer.

Head fake: the best way to teach a person something is to make them think they’re learning something else.

I NEED YOUR SOURCE!!! GHAAA!!! BLAAAHHH!!!

Scared yet?

I was just reading Snorre’s : The Younger Edda, the scene of the creation of the world bears a semblance to the chinese version…

I read that about 5 months ago. My private school taught us Norse Mythology (and most other myths and legends)… I found it enlightening to read it as an adult.

Armando · February 17, 2009, 3:28pm

Hack_Slash:

If you’re referring to “documentaty hypothesis”, it’s “J” for “Jahwist”, “E” for “Elohist”, “D” for “Deuteronomist”, and “P” for “Priestly source”.

And I understand your point… painfully, because I too am frustrated by the many inconsistencies in the Bible. One which really knaws on my brain is why Adam and Eve are considered the first man and woman (GEN 3:20), yet a later chapter states:

“This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.” (GEN 5:1-2)

Note, their name was not “Adam and Eve”, just “Adam”. And if Adam was a race of men and women… what exactly does Eve symbolize? Neanderthals? Another extinct race? Who knows. But this scripture is clear that at least the Book of Genesis (or, one of the Books the redactor used to compile Genesis) was concerned only with the race of Adam.

So confusing!

Btw, “Satan”, “Shetan”, etc are roughly translated as “enemy”. The Serpent was cursed to be Adam’s enemy for all eternity… thus, whenever the character “Satan” appears to be thwarting the efforts of men people naturally assume it’s the same Serpent.

Btw 2.0, there is a class of angels in the Bible called “Seraphim”; the etymology of the word is derrived from “serpent”.

Btw 2.1, when the Israelites were attacked by “fiery serpents” during the Exodus, Moses made a bronze staff with a bronze snake coiled around it… those suffering from snake venom were healed by just looking at the snake. Later, the Israelites worshipped the staff and called it “Nehushtan”; the etymology of this word is related to the Sanscrit, “Nehu”, or “Naga”…

Btw 2.2, according to ancient Chinese mythology, mankind was created by two beings named “Nuwa” (female) and “Fuxi” (male). They are depicted as human from the waste up, serpent from the waste down… she holds the compass, he hold the square… and they are surrounded by star constellations… the only constellation Archeaologists and Astronomers can recognize is the big dipper.

Dude, you just blew my mind! And thanks for the clarification on the “J,” “E,” “D” and “P” classifications. It’s been a while since I’ve thought about this stuff.

CodyfromOhio · February 17, 2009, 6:47pm

Ok really that Grace Park pic is getting to me…

Hack_Slash · February 17, 2009, 7:51pm

Thanks for the compliment!!! I read, write, and ruminate about our origins all day… and even in my dreams. I NEED to know…

Here’s another tidbit: in Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Hebrew myth, Adam was made from “clay”. Clay is a silicate (think silicone)…

Now, juxtapose this fact with what we watch in BSG, and the following scriptures:

“Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” (Daniel 2:41-43)

“…the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose… There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” Genesis 6:2-4)

God sent The Flood to wipe out these hybrids. Why was Noah’s family saved?

“Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.” (Genesis 6:9)

Noah was a good man. Plus, he was “perfect in his generations”, ie, a pure-bred human.

Jesus said, “But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” (MATT 24:37)

I’m not sure who or what the “sons of god” are, but Daniel seems to indicate that “they” will be mingling with men and women once again…