Tarsonis wrote:snip
Having a perfect nature and being in the presence of God sounds quite a lot like being a reflection of Him in terms of the original nature and probably by extension the personal characteristics of Adam before his fall; I understand where you're coming from though and you may very well be right. At any rate it doesn't add or take away from the original point to our Gnostic friend; Christians by default do not believe that God (the Father) is literally a grandfather sitting on a cloud.
As for whether or not Adam and Eve are literal, I agree that Genesis uses a great deal of allegorical language but I don't think it's necessarily impossible that it records actual people to an extent and they may very well be the Mitochondrial Adam and Eve scientists have determined all humans are descended from even though they existed alongside thousands of others. I however am not a Young Earth Creationist who thinks Cain married his sister or somehow interbred with an ape...