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Meaning of "Us" in Genesis.

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Brian
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02-17-2008 8:55 AM 		Reply to: Message 3 by jaywill
02-02-2008 10:31 AM

It was after Adam and Eve partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that God put up a fearsome barrier between them and the tree of life so that man would not live forever in his condition that came about from eating the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
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Are we to believe that Adam and Eve were created as mortals?
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Brian
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02-17-2008 9:36 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by cronin
02-01-2008 5:15 PM

I think there are three possibilites.
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1. It is used as the royal 'we'.
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2. God is talking about the heavenly host of angels.
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3. God is speaking about the other gods in the Canaanite pantheon.
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Depending on which stance you wish to take, you could argue for any.
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I think Christians will adopt 1 or 2, as 3 negates their monotheism.
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Studying the Hebrew Bible objectively, I think option 3 is the most likely, as polytheism is heavily supported in the early books of the Hebrew Bible.
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