[quote=Mordechai;169892]Adam (אָדָם) translates as "dust" or "mankind".
Eve (חַוָּה), pronounced chavah, translates as "source of life" or "a living one".

Where do you get community and leadership from that?


adam as mankind is the leader, it is the leadership role of adam, eve as the source of life or a living one represents a community. In order for mankind to exist it must exist in a community. Mankind needs a source of life to exist likewise leadership needs a community. I see we have stoped the insults and now we are starting to get down to some learning of one another, good!!

to say God is a man brings God to a low level


God is most mercyful , His mercy is our way of escaping punishment, There is no reason for God to come to earth as a man who drops shits and pees(did His shit smell like musk?) to remove our sins when he created us to make mistakes and sin and to ask for forgivness why would the same God need to die for what he already created and put into motion??? Hey did he do the same thing for animals or just the human animal.

Again, where do you get leadership or community from those... It's simply not in the Hebrew, is that just your interpretation/opinion?

it is in the hebrew and in the arabic if you understand it as such. tell me what is adams role and eves role?? the scriptures speak meteaphoricly as well

Who determines what is to be taken literally or metaphorically? You? I? The Pope? The Rabbi's? To me, it seems as if you're choosing what to take literal, and what to take as symbolic. While I definitely agree that certain things are not literal, I question how you come to the conclusion. Jews have the Oral law that was given with the Torah at Sinai by Moshe. My Arabic is mediocre at best - I would never claim to be an expert on that.

Is there anything biblical about this argument? If you speak of a God not of the Bible, you're speaking of a false, different God than mine.

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Indeed ....a huge leap of faith .

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Of course. I think the problematic contention here (or at least the implication) is that any other mindset other than the grand leap of faith is somehow unreasonable (which is ridiculous).

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same God