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i'm just nitpicking at filtherton but:
Adam and Eve did not cover themselves with fig leaves or anything else while in Eden.
Genesis 2:25...
"And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."
keep in mind that according to the genesis narrative, adam and eve had their first children after their banishment from Eden if you read chapters 2-4 chronologically (as it is traditionally done). so, the idea that they were just chilling in Eden with people outside doesn't fit the mold of the usual interpretations.
still though, that doesn't really explain everything. no matter which scenario you propose... none of them work out completely when doctrine and theology are taken into account. it doesn't really bother me, but i'd sure like to know what actually happened in a scientific way at the beginning. what we have here is a narrative representation of actual events, not a court reporter's version. how we tell and understand stories have changed so much over the millenia... the way we read this same story must be so different from how the first person to record it must have read it.
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