Warning for those that are still believers... This train of thought will not be faith strengthening...
I have come a long way since first stumbling on crumbs of TTATT in 2012. (I have not come nearly as far with the wife unfortunately, but such is life.) My critical thinking ability, thankfully, is in another stratosphere since figuring out I was a JW lab rat. A lot of thanks goes to this forum for that. People like Cofty, Terry, Oubliette, etc deserve mention.
So here goes.... I was thinking about Adam and Eve the other day at a meeting. It was a few weeks back. We were studying the 12/15/15 Study Edition WT - Article was entitled Jehovah, the God of Communication. The point was brought out (par. 4) that Jehovah communicated with Adam with human language.
(When I hear something now in a meeting that resembles a new thought, it stands out like a light in a dark room.)
That one point - that God spoke to Adam with human language - caused me to realize something I had never thought about before concerning the Genesis account. Adam and Eve were not normal humans. They were "born" adults. These two persons never had the experience of being children, or having human parents, or learning how to speak or walk or anything else like normal people do.
If God spoke to Adam with Human language, how did Adam learn that language?
Whatever answer you dream up to the above question, he didn't learn language like the average person does. He would have had to have been pre-programmed with language or have experienced some odd man-child situation where God raised a full-grown Adam like a baby - feeding him, helping him learn to walk, helping him learn to speak, etc. Then as the story continues....Whatever happened with Adam would naturally have had to be repeated with Eve.
So.....regardless of how you try to explain Adam and Eve's jump to adulthood without the experience of childhood, you have to admit these two persons are hardly examples of the basic human experience. They are human prototypes. They are starter experiments. Adam and Eve never had human parents, grandparents, extended family, or any sort of community. Heck, they never even had the chance to talk with another person of their same gender.
My point... Adam and Eve couldn't possibly be considered representative of the human race or be expected to be emotionally and/or psychologically developed, stable, or mature... or "normal" by any common measure.
So why on earth would God hold all of mankind accountable for the actions of these odd human prototypes?
P.S. The reason I said "Don't Laugh" in the Title is because these are all brand new thoughts for me
What do you think?...