Janice Anderson passed away 2021-1-15 in Columbus, Indiana. This is the full obituary story where you can express condolences and share memories. Services by Bass & Gasper Funeral Home.
things that perhaps they need not. adam could have said, that fruit, i m not going to eat it. but he took the fruit and he ate it. does that trouble you the way it s been portrayed? of course it s troubling. but it reminds me that the bible, for all that we say it s a divine document, it is written from a man s point of view. ironically, in the muslim holy book, the koran, there s more than enough blame to go around. both adam and eve are to blame equally for eating the forbidden fruit. so, they re co-equal human beings. and i think that s been lost in today s narrative about islam for muslims. in the end it didn t really matter whose fault it was, they both suffered the consequences of disobeying god. the first lesson of genesis is cold and hard. for humans, sustaining life on this earth is not meant to be easy. we have to go out into that cold, suffering world where we labor by the sweat of our brows and give forth our children in pain and have to suffer and die. and we
wisdom, you can become like the gods, you can move up the ladder. in a very human moment, we re told, eve couldn t resist the temptation to take more. so, she took a bite. and she passed the apple to adam. it was the snack that changed history. the man and the woman hide because they re afraid. because they know they ve done something wrong. when god says, did you eat? it s adam who points the finger at eve. and not only at eve but at god, because he says she gave me and you gave her to me. now an angry god casts his creation out of paradise. and just like adam, throughout the millennia, everyone has blamed eve. women are blamed for lots of
400%. it took johan just over four years to build his ark. and he even used the bible as a blueprint. 300 elbow, 30 elbows high. when you say elbow it s from here the cube bit. the cube bit. i took my cube bit because nobody knows how big noah was at that time. noah spent 120 years on his ark. and it s every child s favorite story. when the flood finally did come, he was ready. god sends two of every animal, all of them, two of every single one came on to his ship, from the giraffe to the small little ants and the bears. it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. and finally the whole entire earth was flooded. adam shaff was 17 when he meet him. and as fantastic as the noah story sounds, even tonight not far from his home in new york,
early man and early women could live in kind of idyllic harmony and the food readily accessible and all that. and that s what we re really talking about. it s an earthly paradise. we re told that adam and eve have everything they could ever need. but in order to keep all this, they had to obey one rule. god tells adam and eve not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. and god warned them that if they disobeyed they would die. snake comes along and says once you ve got access to the tree of wisdom, you can become like the gods, you can move up the ladder. in a very human moment, we re told, eve couldn t resist the temptation to take more. so, she took a bite. and she passed the apple to adam. it was the snack that changed history. the man and the woman hide because they re afraid. because they know they ve done something wrong. when god says, did you eat? it s adam who points the finger