Cerpin Taxt
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And what indications are there that Gen 2:17 is not to be taken at face value, other than the fact that on its face it contradicts another verse?Originally posted by: nkgreen
Originally posted by: Garth
What utter nonsense. Take Genesis, for example. Gen 2:17 "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day thou eastest thereof thou shalt surely die," and then Gen 5:5 "And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died."
Good luck with whatever mental gymnastics you have prepared to respond. It is obvious both of these verses cannot be simultaneously true.
When Adam ate from the tree he died not in the literal sense, but from a purity sense. He committed the first sin, and that act damned all of man afterwards. The Bible isn't completely literal, as in all literature, fiction or non-fiction.
