The Adam and Eve Story: Comparing Pop Culture to Scripture

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/17/Sexuality_and_the_Bible_What_the_Texts_Really_Say

Theology professor Thomas Romer analyzes Genesis 2-3, and outlines popular elements of the Adam and Eve story that don't actually appear in the original text.

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Sexuality and the Bible: What the Texts Really Say

Three biblical scholars discuss the role of sexuality in the Bible and answer questions about men and women and their places in ancient society according to the texts.

What does the Bible tell us of the roles of men and women in ancient society and about the importance of gender? From a literary standpoint, do the texts necessarily condemn or condone certain behaviors and lifestyles? In conjunction with the Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, swissnex San Francisco invites top scholars to discuss the role of sexuality in the Bible and answer some of these questions.

Thomas Römer was born in Mannheim, Germany and completed his studies in theology and religious science at the University of Heidelberg, Tübingen and in Paris. He is Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Faculty of Theology and History of Religions of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Since 2007, he is also Professor of Biblical Studies at the College de France, Paris, where he acts as chair of the "milieux bibliques."

He is the author and editor of several books focusing on the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets, including The So-Called Deuteronomistic History. A sociological, historical and literary Introduction, translated into French, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese. He dedicates part of his research to analyzing the role of sexuality in the Bible and has published a number of related books related on this theme, among them Dieu obscur. Le sexe, la cruauté et la violence dans l'Ancien Testament (English translation forthoming), and L'homosexualité dans le Proche-Orient et la Bible.

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[ApatheticOmniscience]

So... What's the point of sending your son to die for our sins if the original was just an allegory and never happened?

[shaneclone15]

Lol so the whole beginning of a religion is made up by different people over the times and now teached as truth? LOL

[bethnissajeanmary]

God is completely heal your sickness , and in the times of your difficulties . . so dont forget God because kung wla sya wala kang magagawa sa buhay mo . .right . . .

[Upstreamswimmer]

It is the story of the origin of the first jews, not the first people. How else to explain why Cain, Adam and Eve's first born lamented, after God expelled him from Eden, "I shall be a wanderer and whoever finds me will kill me." Cain then went to the land of Nod and took a wife who bore him a son named Enoch? (Genesis 4, 13-17). The God of the old testament is the exclusive God of the jewish people, notwithstanding the fact that other peoples and their gods were extant at the same time.

[chrisose]

The essence of the story is:

1) God creates man and woman

2) God tell man and woman they can do anything they want EXCEPT think.

3) Man and woman have a thought.

4) God kicks man and woman out of his perfect garden for doing exactly what he made them capable of doing.

[staceysweetcake]

well,this is silly.

[adillone]

MAY GOD SHOW YOU THE WAY, 

[jorgecalivalle]

hahahaaaaaa ! now it turns out to be that all the language used in the Bible is allegoric and that all the stories in it are for real......shit ! ,even a little kid finds more credible the adventures of Superman

[ApatheticOmniscience]

@squirreljester2 Yeh, sounds more like a bad vacation rather than a sacrifice for all of mankind..

[squirreljester2]

@ApatheticOmniscience And it wasn't much of a sacrifice if he just resurrects his son 3 days later to come home and live in paradise.

[lumpfish99]

@joecoool100 sorry dude, you'll have to do your own homework.

[HimmuraTube]

Word of God eh? *sigh