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Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: If Adam or Eve had eaten of the tree of life after the tree of knowledge it would have made God's word invalid. So God cast them out of Eden to prevent this. My question is, was it ever a possibility that God's word could have been invalidated given that Adam and Eve had remained in the garden and had their free will? Can the actions of men force God to be wrong?
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God was wrong, or lying, either way. He said they'd die the same day they ate of it, and they didn't. It was the serpent who told the truth.
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"If you don't believe that Puerto Rican Americans ought to be able to get married in this country, you are a bigot. If you don't think African Americans should be allowed in the military, you are a bigot. If you think it ought to be legal to refuse to hire Asian Americans, you are a bigot. And in case you're missing the point, there's only one group in America against whom the bigots are winning in all three areas." -Michael Dixon |
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edit: PS, Since you think God was wrong or lying, you might be interested in reading through the debate Victor and I are having about that very topic (and maybe not) : Victor vs. Comprehend - The Fall as necessary
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"It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself." ~ Declaration of Abroth ~
Last edited by Comprehend; 09-16-2007 at 03:38 PM.. |
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Essentially what God is saying here is this: I said if they ate the fruit, ______ would happen. Since they ate the fruit, I must ensure that ______ actually happens. There was no chance that God was going to mess up or forget.
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"It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself." ~ Declaration of Abroth ~
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Try that one with your bank. "Sure, I'll make a payment today! (wink wink)." Unless he told Adam and Eve that a day meant 1000 years, he was deliberately misleading them.
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"If you don't believe that Puerto Rican Americans ought to be able to get married in this country, you are a bigot. If you don't think African Americans should be allowed in the military, you are a bigot. If you think it ought to be legal to refuse to hire Asian Americans, you are a bigot. And in case you're missing the point, there's only one group in America against whom the bigots are winning in all three areas." -Michael Dixon |
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Literalists are funny.
They did die when they partook of the fruit - they were cast out of the Garden and separated from God (a spiritual death). |
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There is nothing in the Hebrew that prevents the verse from meaning something like: "you shall surely be denied the possibility of immortality" and, in fact, expulsion from the garden and, therefore, access to the tree of life was immediate.
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Is this what Quakers believe?
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Thanks for the ridiculous example again though. ![]()
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good point. I wasn't even thinking about the spiritual death.
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"It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself." ~ Declaration of Abroth ~
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