No offer of immortality / eternal life there.
No offer of immortality / eternal life there.
On the exact contrary, God made dang sure that would never happen.
And as we've seen, it wasn't anything [he]'d every proposed, let alone promised, anyway.
No offer of immortality / eternal life there.
Outright refusal of immortality / eternal life there.
Yea! At last something we can agree on!
No offer of immortality / eternal life there. An "inheritance" implies further generations, but we have that already.
I did anticipate this was going to be a head butter.
My brother said this...
Not quite sure why you say ' immortal ' because they were Never offered immortality, but offered everlasting life.
He made no claim of an offer of immortality. So what's up with the immortality claim?
The offer to live forever is there in the scriptures.
Repeating, one final time.
(Genesis 2:17) . . .But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat from it,
for in the day you eat from it you will certainly die.. . .
(Genesis 3:22) . . .Jehovah God then said: “Here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad. Now
in order that he may not put his hand out and take fruit also from the tree of life and eat and live forever,. . .
God did not have to explicitly state, "Here I am offering you everlasting life."
When one reads anything, they do not complain that they don't see a particular phrase explicitly stated.
It seems evident to me, that anyone who is understanding, can read these scriptures, and with reasonableness "see" clearly, and with humility, like a little child - at an age of understanding, of course, accept the facts laid out in the following.
Fact #1
According to the Bible...
God created the earth to be inhabited by living creatures, including man.
(Isaiah 45:18) . . .The One who formed the earth, its Maker who firmly established it, Who did not create it simply for nothing, but formed it to be inhabited:. . .
(Psalm 115:15, 16)
15 May you be blessed by Jehovah, The Maker of heaven and earth.
16 As for the heavens, they belong to Jehovah, But
the earth he has given to the sons of men.
(Psalm 37:29)
The righteous will possess the earth, And they will live forever on it.
Fact #2
According to the scriptures,
God created the tree of life... on earth... in the garden... where he put the man... and for what purpose
?
(Genesis 2:8, 9)
8 Further, Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 Thus Jehovah God made to grow out of the ground every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food and also the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad.
For man to eat of it? Evidently.
(Genesis 3:22) . . .Jehovah God then said: “Here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad.
Now in order that he may not put his hand out and take fruit also from the tree of life and eat and live forever,. . .
The scripture do not say Adam was restricted from eating fruit from the tree of life - one of the trees that was good for food. It was the tree of knowledge of good and bad that God laid the command for them not to eat, and the consequences for eating from that tree was death.
Whereas, the
eating of fruit from the tree of life was a guarantee of everlasting life.
Fact #3
According to the scriptures...
Everlasting life is promised by God, to those who obey him, and keep his way
(1 John 2:15-17)
15 Do not love either the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;
16 because everything in the world - the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the showy display of one’s means of life - does not originate with the Father, but originates with the world.
17 Furthermore,
the world is passing away and so is its desire, but the one who does the will of God remains forever.
(John 6:40) For
this is the will of my Father, that everyone who recognizes the Son and exercises faith in him should have everlasting life, and I will resurrect him on the last day.
This is possible, because according to the Bible,
God will remove death from all the righteous forever.
(Isaiah 25:8) . . .
He will swallow up death forever, And the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe away the tears from all faces. The reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, For Jehovah himself has spoken it.
What really are you arguing against? What's your argument in particular?
So that you know, if you are arguing for the sake of arguing... perhaps because you have nothing better to do, I want to let you know, I have things to do, so I'll have to say...
Take care blu. Bye