Sounds right to me! If we understand it otherwise, then IMO we’re reading an account about Someone with a personality disorder, and talking to Himself.

Well, since we’re living in a society that for the most part has, we just need to look around…. People are more selfish than ever before; there is a higher percentage of  people suffering from mental & emotional scars than ever occurred in the past; family life, in many instances, is crap…which is one cause leading to those scars. — 2Tim…[Read more]

Thanks, @Proclaimer

(Sorry for the belated response, I don’t get on this site much.)

I agree. Another line of evidence (sorry if you posted it, I missed it):

God told Adam concerning the tree, “in the *day* you eat from it, you will die.”
They didn’t…..that *day* was centuries later.

Using “day” this way as an unspecified period of time, doesn’t contradict the Hebrew definition of “Yohm” ; rather, the context supports it.

Your title is a little misleading

You are really asking if they have a consensus on anything, right? A shared belief in common?

(That’s a good question.)
Nope, I really don’t think so.

But the disunity found in Christendom, more than any other foundational religion, to me, actually is evidence that it began as the way to God.

Consider: how man…[Read more]