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The Story of Eden

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 25, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 45.

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The Story of Eden

By Editor

The worldly wisdom of the present, as also the trend of many religionists, is well shown in the following question and answer from the Christian Union:—
“A friend, writing in dissent from the explanation in a religious journal of the story of Eve in Eden as history, closes thus with an inquiry: I have much use for the story of Eden as an allegory, but if I must regard it as actual history or be cast out as an unbeliever, I shall ‘take to the woods.’ What say you?”
“We do not think that you will be disturbed. Even conservative scholars now hold the view that the early part of Genesis contains some ‘spiritualized legends.’”
No, the friend will not be disturbed, in all probability, by the religious teachers of to-day. It is worth something to us to know that every reference in the New Testament is to the effect that the story of the creation and fall are historical facts. It is just as true in these days as in Paul's time that men by wisdom know not God.