Linguistics of Jesus on Adam and Eve

[Guy_Coe]

I answered that in the first thread, but haven’t heard back from either you or A.J. yet. Curious to hear anyone else’s comments, as well. Conflating two things closely related in THEME doesn’t make them closely related in TIME.
The chiasm in the transition between the first two pericopes was deliberately inserted by Moses as editor of the compiled accounts, and was meant to keep us readers from the mistake of trying to conflate them into one account or to see them as conflicting accounts of the same events, in my view. Moses was well aware of the confusion it would cause were an interpreter to try to do so.

Ken Keathley: How High Are The Stakes?

If you mean two events closely related in time, it’s not… but, that’s my point. I don’t see the “from the beginning they were made male and female” quote from Mark 10:6-9 as Jesus conflating the two things cited (made male and female, and the story of Adam and Eve) in time --not in a sequential reading of the text. They are, in fact, not the same thing, nor done at the same time in this kind of reading. They are events closely related in theme, not time. The one event cited elucidates the other. Jesus does the same thing here, for example: And Jesus answering them said, “Have you not even read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him, how he entered the house of God, and took and ate the consecrated bread which is not lawful for any to eat except the priests alone, and gave it to his companions?” And He was saying to them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.” - Luke 6:3-5 NASB Does that make any more sense, now, @AJRoberts ? @swamidass ?