Pah
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From Genesis 3:14-19, NIV
There has been some discussion in another thread that death came to humakind through the curse God gave Adam for eating of the fruiut of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. It has been alledged that the "cursing of the ground" is the venue.
The context of the phrase "Cursed is the ground because of you" does not show that. Instead, it shows that weeds would make humankind's labors more difficult.
I can see nowhere else where death is part of the curse. Indeed, the span of humankind's life is mentioned. It not that comparable and equivalent to the the rest of living animals and plants. They, except for the serpent, are not cursed and we know that that have live terminated by death. Plants and animals die within a live span according to kind.
Death was not part of the curse.
-pah-
14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this,
"Cursed are you above all the livestock
and all the wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring [1] and hers;
he will crush [2] your head,
and you will strike his heel."
16 To the woman he said,
"I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you."
17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,'
"Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat of it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return."
There has been some discussion in another thread that death came to humakind through the curse God gave Adam for eating of the fruiut of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. It has been alledged that the "cursing of the ground" is the venue.
The context of the phrase "Cursed is the ground because of you" does not show that. Instead, it shows that weeds would make humankind's labors more difficult.
I can see nowhere else where death is part of the curse. Indeed, the span of humankind's life is mentioned. It not that comparable and equivalent to the the rest of living animals and plants. They, except for the serpent, are not cursed and we know that that have live terminated by death. Plants and animals die within a live span according to kind.
Death was not part of the curse.
-pah-