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RE: ADSactly Literature: Soulmates throughout literature – the ongoing myth of Adam and Eve

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These craftsmen battled with a Christian universality that affirmed that the Genesis story was truly valid. Be that as it may, for a long time, the story was not perused as a true report of occasions. In the early fifth century, Saint Augustine, the establishing scholar of Western Christianity, dedicated 15 years to making The Literal Meaning out of Genesis, in which he contended that the scriptural content need not be seen actually on the off chance that it conflicts with what we know to be valid from different sources. All the more profoundly, the primary century Greek-speaking Jewish savant Philo of Alexandria introduced Genesis as a moral story: an intertwining of emblematic symbolism with envisioned occasions that contained a collection of implying that couldn't undoubtedly be communicated in different ways.