Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG]

Do you really mean, John, that if the verb form says one thing and the 
context points in another direction, you ignore the verb form and 
follow the context? Surely not! Now of course if the verb form is 
ambiguous, maybe - but is it? And then the context is hardly 
clear-cut, unless we presuppose (with early Christians and some today) 
that sex is evil.

Obviously, if Cain was born, or even conceived, in Eden, he was 
affected by the Fall as were his parents. But this is a theological 
issue which should not be allowed to determine our reading of the 
text.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: Sex in paradise? (was: Qatal, 1 Kings 11:1)
Author:  ronning AT ilink.nis.za at internet
Date:    04/02/1999 01:00


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>... How, from the text, can we 
> tell what the author meant?

Like with everything, which view makes the most sense of the context - 
in this case, that Gen 4:1 chronologically follows the expulsion from 
the Garden.

Regards,

John Ronning