# Arguing from the English Translation?

**URL:** https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/arguing-from-the-english-translation/12098
**Category:** Conversation
**Tags:** Theology
**Created:** [October 11, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/arguing-from-the-english-translation/12098 "2020-10-11T13:46:47Z")
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### Author: ![swamidass](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/swamidass/32/3_2.png) [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/arguing-from-the-english-translation/12098/35 "2020-10-08T15:36:12Z")

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> [@Why were Adam and Eve cast out of Eden?](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/why-were-adam-and-eve-cast-out-of-eden/12029/118):
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> I will again try to clarify: My intent here is to discuss how this story would be interpreted by someone who is _not_ committed to Christianity being true, and is just objectively interpreting the text as it stands.

If that’s what you want to do, look at actual scholarly interpretations by non Christians. Test your theory. Find examples that agree with you. You can. But you will also find examples that don’t. Report those too.

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