Lost world of Adam and Eve Interview

I think Walton does a nice job in this piece until the end. He takes the common cultural turn of de-mythologizing the story, by making it generic lessons. The story is given, we should tell the story. Children (and people) quite easily hold contradictory and stories on tension together. Let them stay in tension. When the tensions arise and we need to do some work with those tensions, we do them. Walton offers an interpretation. Interpretation is fine, but it is interpretation, not the story. We should tell the story, learn to live within the story while in life we apply it with interpretation. As I work with the Bible, its grand story, I am continually amazed by how powerful it is and how it draws us in and how we have to figure out how to live within it even within our own unique cultural moments. When we substitute the story with our interpretation, we lose the source of the narrative power making the interpretation just another idea to forget.