Importance of Original Sin

When was he with her? The text/context implies that he was with her when she initially ate it. But a literal reading doesn't say at what point he came to her side, now does it?

Because it's the most obvious choice, mainly since it doesn't say anything like "then adam comes walking over and sees eve talking to a snake". Instead, the very next sentence says "who (adam) was with her", which implies he was with her when the event in the preceding sentence took place.This is the problem with the bible, and something that has reared it's head on EvC recently. It's far too open to interpretation, yet people take it as a literal truth. So open to interpretation is it that you cannot even tell people they are wrong. Every reading is just as valid as the next.

I don't care one whit. I don't rest anything on any part of your holy book because it's all fairy tales. However, since we are in bible study, we are investigating the stories as written. So, if you want to assume that a whole bunch of time passed in one sentence, with no written indication that any time has passed, be my guest. Like I said: you are free to interpret your book however you see fit.

But ICANT sells a genesis where there was no such thing as death before they ate the fruit. Hell, he even thinks animals could talk before that fateful event. So from that, we gather that they didn't even know what death was. You, me and all speakers of english know what "danger" means and that it's bad. It would be more like a big red button that said "hasa diga eebowai".

Not so much assuming but reading and comprehending.