Talk:Gen 8:20-9:17

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I'm not sure what to make of the parallel between Adam and Eve being prohibited from eating of the tree of life and of Noah and his descendants being prohibited from eating meat with "life" (i.e., blood) in it. But I did find it interesting. --User:Eric 17:26, 2 Feb 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone have any suggestion what verse 5 means? --Matthew Faulconer 05:52, 8 Feb 2006 (UTC)

Is it accurate to say "life," symbolized by blood? To me "symbolized" seems too soft. On the other hand, I also don't like the idea of coming up with some scientific-like explanation of blood as the cause of mortality or something like that. I feel there should be some way of not weakening the claim to symbolism but also not re-interpretting it as a scientific-like claim about how blood works at a physiological level. So anyway I don't have a better suggestion but thought maybe someone else would if I brought up the issue. --Matthew Faulconer 06:06, 8 Feb 2006 (UTC)

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