In-church negative reaction to Genesis
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 5:23 pm
The passage that my church gave me to read out tonight was Genesis 3: 8-19.
After the service I joked that I thought I could have been given nicer passages to read. One by-stander, a woman, hastened to say that that passage was a "load of old Bronze Age rubbish". And secondly (which is why I mentioned her gender) that the story about Eve being the first to succumb to temptation is the original root of sexism in the world.
How would you respond to such (in-church I hasten to add) disdain for Genesis and that passage in particular?
After the service I joked that I thought I could have been given nicer passages to read. One by-stander, a woman, hastened to say that that passage was a "load of old Bronze Age rubbish". And secondly (which is why I mentioned her gender) that the story about Eve being the first to succumb to temptation is the original root of sexism in the world.
How would you respond to such (in-church I hasten to add) disdain for Genesis and that passage in particular?