The Garden of Eden

Originally posted by FMF
My last 5 posts on this page have been "stating the obvious".

perhaps you have a gift for it?

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gods love

Originally posted by redbadger
gods love

Luckily for you, Noah included weasels when he loaded the ark.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
The[y] did die and there is no indication that the sentence of death was to be instantaneous, unless of course you can provide evidence that it was.

Gen 2:17:"But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (KJV)

Read that, robbie. It's as clear as day.

At least one contributor to this thread has stated categorically that "the garden" is to be taken literally; there was a real garden with real trees in it, not a symbolic garden with symbolic trees. At least one contributor to this thread has stated categorically that "the tree" and its "fruit" are to be understood literally, not symbolically.

So, in the first clause of Gen 2:17:"But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it;" that tree is/was literally a real tree with literal real fruit and literal real leaves. Is that your position, yes or no?

Originally posted by moonbus
Gen 2:17:"But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (KJV)

Read that, robbie. It's as clear as day.

At least one contributor to this thread has stated categorically that "the garden" is to be taken literally; there was a real garden with real trees in it, not ...[text shortened]... y a real tree with literal real fruit and literal real leaves. Is that your position, yes or no?

You have not provided a shred of evidence that death was to be instantaneous, in fact the day they ate from it they started to die. Your insistence that they were to die that very day is baseless and unsubstantiated. In fact the apostle Paul qualifies the statement when he relates that sin and death entered into the world through one man Adam, a state we are still under and none of us are dying instantaneously.

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whether you have or have not is irrelevant, we are interested in what the Bible teaches and what may be established scripturaly, your teaching is inconsequential to that.

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strange i looked through the thread and could not find a single Biblical scripture you used to support your case. so lets get this the garden of Eden was literal, but not the trees in it? What is your scriptural reference for that?

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It makes logical sense that if the garden of Eden was literal and we know that according to Christ that it was, then when the great flood came it may have suffered destruction. Its not illogical, irrational and very plausible. After all do we see evidence of the literal garden of Eden today, no? why not?