The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden

How should we interpret this story?

I recently had an interaction with a reader here, I wouldn’t say a fan but someone who regularly reads and comments on my content nonetheless who made the comment that someone taking the story of the Garden of Eden literally was ridiculous. I made sure to mention to this reader that there are millions upon millions of Christians in the U.S. who read these stories literally, so critiquing that view of the stories isn’t ridiculous in my opinion.

For this reader’s sake, and for any Biblical literalists in my readership I thought I’d dive into the various alternate interpretations of this story that I am aware of.