They are real, but the story surrounding their creation is symbolic, not literal. That should be easy enough to see from the six days it took to create the world we now live in. Evolution, the idea that man evolved from a lower lifeform, is a myth.
Logically, Adam and Eve were born to parents just like any of the rest of us were. It is illogical to believe that they were made from a pile of dirt or that Eve literally was made from one of Adam's ribs.
Why is it "illogical"--because YOU say so?
Now, the Mormon god is too puny to have made man from the dust of the ground and Eve from one of Adam's ribs--but the true God of the Bible isn't bound by what man calls "logic." He is NOT held captive to our finite ability to understand His Nature and abilities fully this side of heaven. So, the true God of the Bible can and did make man from the dust of the earth, and breathed the breath of life into him, so he became a living being. And He made Eve from one of Adam's ribs--not from his head, so she would be over him and not from a bone in his foot, so she would be beneath him, but from a bone from his side, so she would be near his heart (the pastor at our wedding said this and I always liked it)...
God created man and woman--He did NOT procreate them. Jesus Himself says so!
Matthew 19:4
New American Standard Bible 1995
4 And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who CREATED them from the beginning MADE them male and female...
Jesus Himself affirms the Biblical creation of man and woman. So, are you going to call Jesus a liar?
The same is true of the birth of Jesus. We know how procreation works. His Father had to have the same DNA that we have. If he didn't then Jesus wasn't human.
OH, so you are saying that Jesus is the result of procreation between HF and his spirit daughter in the flesh, Mary? They had sex? Is that it? Wouldn't that be incest?
It is nonsense that Jesus had to have the same "DNA" as His Father. God is spirit, as Jesus says in John 4 and in context, He was talking about His Father! Spirit has no DNA. But Jesus got His humanity and DNA from Mary, not from His Father, Who was and is spirit and existed as such from all eternity.
Mormons say they believe the Bible but apparently only the parts they want to believe.
The details of our creation, our origin, are not important.
Yes, they are very important! One believes the Biblical witness--or not. Or rather chooses to believe the personal twisting of the Scripture.
Theologically, the message is about how we arrived in this state, through transgression, and how we can get back, through propitiation offered to those who are willing to live after the manner of happiness which is what the scriptures teach us.
The scriptures teach us that Jesus Christ is the propitiation for all our sins, and those that trust and believe in Him--the true Jesus Christ of the Bible, not the fake one of Mormonism, who is Satan's brother in the supposed pre-mortal spirit existence--for salvation, great and free, will have eternal life..."For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have EVERLASTING LIFE." Did Jesus add "whosoever believes in Him AND jumps through all of the Mormon temple hoops, and remains temple worthy until death, will have eternal life"?
Did He?
That message receives a lot of static. There seems to be a willingness to twist the scriptures in a effort to obscure our part.
Oh, baloney! It is the Mormons who twist scriptures--like saying the creation story of man is merely symbolic and not literal.
A perfect example of Scripture-twisting!
It's purpose is a teaching device. Sadly, most Christian religions don't get it.
Yes, it is. And we can use the actual creation story in God's holy word as a teaching device. I have taught it; I was taught it as a child in Sunday School. I have studied it in Adult Bible Class. So, yes we can use what is actually written in the creation account as a "teaching device."
It is the lost ones in Mormonism who do not "get it."
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