My latest article at Examiner.com…
O blessed and necessary sin of Adam
Taking the opening of the Book of Genesis as a literal account of history, we face a contradiction very quickly: Genesis 1 asserts an order of creation that is plainly contradicted by the order of creation asserted in Genesis 2. That alone should be enough to give us pause, and I submit that it should further be taken as an indication that the strictly literal interpretation is not the one we are meant to follow.
