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Book: Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
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  1. Elaine Pagels _ Adam, Eve, and the Serpent:

    This debate over Genesis revealed a major disagreement among second-century Christians, a disagreement whose outcome would shape church doctrine ever after.
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  2. Elaine Pagels _ Adam, Eve, and the Serpent:

    Are we to believe that Adam and Eve actually heard God's footsteps rustling in the garden of Eden, as the text suggests, when it says that Adam and Eve hid themselves,
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  3. Elaine Pagels _ Adam, Eve, and the Serpent:

    So long as Christians remained members of a suspect society, subject to death, the boldest among them maintained that, since demons controlled the government and inspired its agents, the believer could gain freedom at their hands only in death.
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  4. Elaine Pagels _ Adam, Eve, and the Serpent:

    By the beginning of the fifth century Catholic Christians lived as subjects of an empire they could no longer consider alien, much less wholly evil.{...} By the beginning of the fifth century few who dealt with the government firsthand - certainly not Chrysostom and finally not Augustine either - would have identified it with God's reign on earth.
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  5. Elaine Pagels _ Adam, Eve, and the Serpent:

    What Christians see, or claim to see, in Genesis 1-3 changed as the church itself changed from a dissident Jewish sect to a popular movement persecuted by the Roman government, and changed further as this movement increasingly gained members throughout Roman society, until finally even the Roman emperor himself converted to the new faith and Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire.
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