-Removed-yawn, another opinion piece, banal, predictable and uninteresting, if you are interested in the matter then i suggest you attempt to address the points that have been put to you, what you think of Galveston is irrelevant to me and its also becoming increasingly clear you are uninterested in discussing the points that have been put to you.
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Originally posted by robbie carrobieThe second clause of Gen 2:17 reads: "for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Is "eat" literal, meaning really to put something into the mouth, masticate, swallow, digest, or is that some sort of symbolic 'eat'?
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.
Is "die" literal, meaning really bodily to cease functioning, or is that some sort of symbolic death (a coward dies a thousand of them)?
Is "in the day" literal, meaning what people of biblical times meant by "a day," to wit the period from sun up to sun down? "The day" (not "some day" ) meaning literally on the very same day as the literal eating of the literal tree? Or is that some sort of figurative day as in "in my great grandfather's day"?
Literal eating and dying on the same day (albeit not instantaneously), yes or no?
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Originally posted by moonbusif you can offer any evidence for a non literal interpretation of eating, day, dying or anything else then please do so. We have already established from a christian perspective that Jesus taught that the Garden was literal and no amount of intellectual jive talk can change that fact. If you wish to engage in pure speculation then its your affair.
The second clause of Gen 2:17 reads: "for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Is "eat" literal, meaning really to put something into the mouth, masticate, swallow, digest, or is that some sort of symbolic 'eat'?
Is "die" literal, meaning really bodily to cease functioning, or is that some sort of symbolic death (a coward dies a tho ...[text shortened]... her's day"?
Literal eating and dying on the same day (albeit not instantaneously), yes or no?