>garden full of lions, tigers, snakes, birds, horses, rabbits, yadda yadda

So did the animals just not eat other? How were adam and eve safe hanging around fucking tigers

How do you think zoos work

>>24562404 (OP)
>For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
>For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
>For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
>Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
>For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
>And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
>For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
>But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

>>24562404 (OP)

sir you need to talk to a creationist, us modern rationalists know it was all a metaphor

>>24562404 (OP)
The Bible was meant to be interpreted symbolically. You don’t actually care about logical consistency and don’t actually believe in materialism. You think you are god and that people are god and that people control reality. Your entire worldview is just a rationalization for power and irresponsibility and denying reality and lying and stealing.

>>24563455
>The Bible was meant to be interpreted symbolically
Careful or you’ll get those pedantic retards who’ll ask you if Jesus wasn’t real and just a symbol.

>>24563423
>it was all a metaphor
it wasn't ALL meant to be a metaphor, but yes there aren't literal animals, at least not the earthly versions, in eden

This is my favorite engraving on the subject.

>>24562404 (OP)
in eden, every animal ate plants. it was only after adam & eve disobeyed that predation, death and violence entered the world

Jews, freemasons, babylon mystery schools etc etc.

It's all allergories and metaphor. Jesus didn't feed 5000 people with a loaf of bread and a fish but he shared his fish and bread and when everyone saw it they started sharing as well and boom. 5000 people got fed. You have to apply that logic to all these shitty biblical stories which are all stories stolen from earlier religions but the victors of these holy wars burned all the books and muddied the waters so much that no one actually knows what's true except maybe the Vatican and the knights templar.

>>24563455
Was it interpreted symbolically by the people who first wrote it down or received it at Mount Sinai or whenever it came into this world?

>>24562404 (OP)
If your are still interpreting mythology literally like a 5 year old youre ngmi

>>24562404 (OP)
Well once they ate the fruit of the tree they were cursed with knowledge
They were dumb and happy before they ate the fruit
After they ate the fruit they realized they were going to die

>>24562404 (OP)
You might well ask the same question about Noah's ark. How could 8 people feed, and clean up after, all those animals without getting themselves killed?