Is it normal i think adam and eve is a metophor for growing up?

Why are you creating divisions in society?

Why so literal? The story of Adam and Eve is one of many creation myths. It's a story. And people still tell stories, just take a peek at what Hollywood does. Is Hollywood archaic? Not really.

A metaphor for archaic learning should really discuss the tools to deliver information, not the content itself.

I think it was a metaphor for a lot of things. The story can be looked at and appreciated in so many different ways, it's unreal. A lot of the Bible is very heavy, metaphorically, and ultimately, it is a guide and teaching tool.

It's not blasphemous to attempt to make sense of the Bible in your own way. They say that at every stage of your life, read it, and you will get something different out of it that will help you make sense of life.

Many Bilbe stories, as well as mythology, have subliminal life messages. You're exactly right. It's a story of loss of innocence, coming of age, and submission to authority.

I think this is an interesting way to view this. After the fall, God punished us, and made them leave the Garden of Eden and live their own life. In a way this could be a metaphor for growing up and moving out. When you're a child, you're innocent, and I think that is God's way of saying things weren't supposed to be this way. As you get older, you start to understand how the world works, and you start sinning. Of course children sin, but they usually don't know any better. Anyway, sometimes when teens make mistakes, they get kicked out of the house and have to start their own life. This is pretty interesting to look at it in this way.

It actually sounds like a pretty good theory overall. There is the problem of adulthood somehow being a punishment, but overall, good theory.

To me, applying the metaphor of 'the fall of man' to becoming an adult is to equate growing up to being bad, disobedient and sinful.

God was punishing Adam and Eve for their disobedience and submission to the will of The Devil. As much as childhood is usually a time of innocence and ignorant bliss, and as much as adulthood has burdens and stresses absent from childhood, I don't think it's healthy to see adulthood in a negative way, to feel as though everything was perfect before and now you have to struggle as your punishment for developing a sense of morality and understanding of the world.

(I'm not a Christian by the way)

I never thought of it quite like that but you have a valid theory.

"And on the third day, God created the Remington bolt-action rifle, so that Man could fight the dinosaurs. And the homosexuals."

Lol.

The story of Adam and Eve, as portrayed in the book of Genesis, is not a metaphor for growing up, but it is a metaphor for Archaic learning and understanding.
This story was probably written sometime between 2,500 and 2,600 years before present. We have learned much since then. Please stop teaching this nonsense to your children.

The location of this story is unclear, and could be variously near the headwaters of the Tigris or Euphrates rivers (Tabriz, Iran, possibly), in Lebanon, in the Mesopotamian Marshes (Iraq), or in Africa. Which is correct?
The deity, as portrayed, is named Yahweh. Please use the proper name for a deity. (In this case, Yahweh is also variously known as Jehovah, YHWH, Allah and other variations.)
Man was not fashioned from dust. Humans (both female and male) were born as infants, just ask your mother and / or grandmother. The first humans, were the result of genetic mutations from a similar species. Please see 'Mitochondrial Eve' and 'Y-chromosomal Adam'. These two individuals were not contemporaries.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam

Humans do not have 'dominion' over plants and animals. We need to share this planet with the other life forms that we co-exist with, and are reliant upon, for our very survival. At present, we are doing a very poor job of this.

Females were not created from males. Females usually have the same number of ribs.

What species of tree(s) were in this garden?

What species of snake was in this garden?

You have used a term which divides people who believe in the teachings of Abraham, from other people who also believe in the teachings of Abraham, as well as from people who are not religious. This might be offensive to some people, whether they are religious or whether they are not religious.

Why are you creating division in society?