Barker again. different book Creation Margaret Barker “ and so we return to the sources in the quest for biblical creation theology, which for Christians must be the Bible as it was and as it was understood in the time of Jesus” “This is not easy: the text of the Hebrew Bible that we use today differs in some important ways from the one (or ones) known in the time of Jesus.” “Adam the image wore as his vestment the garment of God’s glory, but he lost it through sin. In the time of Jesus, the master copy of the sacred texts kept in the temple said that God originally made for Adam and Eve ‘garments of light, rather than garments of skin (Gen. 3.21)”. [the word for light is identical to the word for skin, except for the marking in front of the word, i.e. or which my computer is unable to reproduce] “The punishment hints at another story of Adam, not in the Old Testament, but known in the time of Jesus. Adam was presented to the angels as their ruler, but Satan refused to worship him and so was thrown from heaven. He vowed revenge- and the familiar story of the fall was the result.” p 213 “Adam’s robe of glory represented righteousness...” p 214 “The risen Lord promised faithful Christians the gifts they had lost to the snake: true riches, white garments of glory, and ointment for their eyes so they could see again (Rev. 3.18) p 288 ‘[wisdom] will meet him like a mother, and like the wife of his youth she will welcome him. she will feed him with the bread of understanding and give him the water of Wisdom to drink’ (Ben Sira 15.2-3) sound of many waters equals wisdom water symbolizes wise teaching and the words of the Lord. p 257 polluted water is false teaching. p 259
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