Adam and Eve go into the water to pray

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AND Adam and Eve remained in the Cave of Treasures until the seventh day; they neither ate of the fruit of the earth, nor drank water.
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2 And when it dawned on the eighth day, Adam said to Eve, "O Eve, we prayed God to give us somewhat from the garden, and He sent His angels who brought us what we had desired.
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3 “But now, arise, let us go to the sea of water we saw at first, and let us stand in it, praying that God will again be favourable to us and take us back to the garden; or give us something; or that He will give us comfort in some other land than this in which we are.”
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4 Then Adam and Eve came out of the cave, went and stood on the border of the sea in which they had before thrown themselves, and Adam said to Eve:–

5 "Come, go down into this place, and come not out of it until the end of thirty days, when I shall come to thee. And pray to God with fervent heart and a sweet voice, to forgive us.

6 “And I will go to another place, and go down into it, and do like thee.”

7 Then Eve went down into the water, as Adam had commanded her. Adam also went down into the water; and they stood praying; and besought the Lord to forgive them their offence, and to restore them to their former state.
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8 And they stood thus praying, unto the end of the five-and-thirty days.
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SedesDomi:
where are you drawing your info from???
 
Corki said:
What is that link? It is not advisable to click on unknown links for the safety of your computer.
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Float your mouse over the link. The URL address of the link will then appear somewhere on your browser. If the URL address looks safe, then click on link. If it doesn’t look safe, then don’t click on link. If you click on the link and your computer explodes, you may report me to the moderators.
 
I can’t even see the url but the quote is from the Book of Adam and Eve, more commonly known as the Apocalypse of Moses. It’s one of many ancient texts which the Church did NOT include in the canon of Scripture - books we tend now to call “pseudoepigrapha.” (Literally that means written over a false name, which does not characterize all of the books in the category . . .)

There are lots of copies of these texts available on the internet if you find them fascinating. Some are more authentic as historical supplements to Scripture than others. Some are just interesting glimpses of the literary tastes of an earlier time.

Why this person is posting this lengthy quote from a book which no Christian church of any denomination has ever considered canonical I don’t know. There are a sizeable number of people around who want to claim that the Church “suppressed” books that contradicted doctrine which, of course, is a direct challenge to the Catholic belief that the Bishops were guided by the Holy Spirit in their determinations of which writings were to be read as the Inspired and Authoritative Word of God.
 
What point are you trying to make?? You’ve lost me
 
SedesDomi said:
Float your mouse over the link. The URL address of the link will then appear somewhere on your browser. If the URL address looks safe, then click on link. If it doesn’t look safe, then don’t click on link. If you click on the link and your computer explodes, you may report me to the moderators.
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And I suppose they’ll track you down to make you pay for the damage to my computer that a virus or other unwanted program could cause? :rolleyes:
 
LilyM said:
And I suppose they’ll track you down to make you pay for the damage to my computer that a virus or other unwanted program could cause? :rolleyes:
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Don’t worry. It’s a safe URL address.👍
 
NHInsider said:
Why this person is posting this lengthy quote from a book which no Christian church of any denomination has ever considered canonical I don’t know.
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Just because a book was not considered canonical, doesn’t mean that it wasn’t read or that it wasn’t popular at various times in history. There’s evidence that “The Book of Adam and Eve” was quite popular in the Western Church, especially Celtic areas, around 600 CE.
 
SedesDomi said:
Just because a book was not considered canonical, doesn’t mean that it wasn’t read or that it wasn’t popular at various times in history. There’s evidence that “The Book of Adam and Eve” was quite popular in the Western Church, especially Celtic areas, around 600 CE.
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But what point are you trying to make???
 
SedesDomi said:
Just because a book was not considered canonical, doesn’t mean that it wasn’t read or that it wasn’t popular at various times in history. There’s evidence that “The Book of Adam and Eve” was quite popular in the Western Church, especially Celtic areas, around 600 CE.
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Popularity does not translate into Sacred Scripture.
 
tobinatorstark said:
quite true. He refuses to tell what point the passage is supposed to mean
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The point of the passage is a meditation on what Adam and Eve might have done after the Fall. If some of our Christian ancestors read books like these, it might be educational for us to know what got into their heads.😉
 
SedesDomi said:
The point of the passage is a meditation on what Adam and Eve might have done after the Fall. If some of our Christian ancestors read books like these, it might be educational for us to know what got into their heads.😉
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If it was of any importance it would have been in sacred scripture
 
SedesDomi said:
Just because a book was not considered canonical, doesn’t mean that it wasn’t read or that it wasn’t popular at various times in history. There’s evidence that “The Book of Adam and Eve” was quite popular in the Western Church, especiallltic areas, around 600 CE.
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You mean AD, Anno Domini. I do not recognize CE. What nerve.
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SedesDomi said:
And not being sacred scripture doesn’t mean that something isn’t edifying to some degree.
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Quite true. But it DOES mean that this discussion, and I still don’t see anything to discuss here, doesn’t belong in a forum dedicated to Sacred Scripture. It should be discussed under Popular Media.
 
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