Originally posted by lemon limeThis has actually been explained to him previously in other discussions and as I see with no affect on his reasoning ability on what "a day" can mean.
I wasn't contradicting what I said, I was contradicting what you said.
Apparently there are two ways of interpreting this passage, and you seem determined to take advantage of this apparent discrepancy. But there is no discrepancy when the passage is taken in context, and not out of context as you have done.
"in the day that you" simply refers to th ...[text shortened]... g or able to go. I thought you might be leading up to something else, but it appears this is it.
Originally posted by galveston75Is not defining the word "day" in different ways at different times in the same literature ~ so as to bolster a particular ideological approach to the interpretation of the text ~ isn't it simply what is commonly known as 'cherry picking'?
This has actually been explained to him previously in other discussions and as I see with no affect on his reasoning ability on what "a day" can mean.
Originally posted by FMFMaybe by some who do not think out the surrounding facts. Adam did not die within that 24 hour day. But he did die withing a thousand years which was within "God's day".
Is not defining the word "day" in different ways at different times in the same literature ~ so as to bolster a particular ideological approach to the interpretation of the text ~ isn't it simply what is commonly known as 'cherry picking'?
God did not kill Adam as he was still going to have children with his wife Eve. If God had killed Adam then the human race would have ended then in the garden.
So no cherry picking here, just seeing the obvious.
Originally posted by galveston75What you have written could be an example of 'cherry picking' in a text book. That you happen to look upon your own selectivity as "just seeing the obvious" does not alter the fact that it is 'cherry picking'.
Maybe by some who do not think out the surrounding facts. Adam did not die within that 24 hour day. But he did die withing a thousand years which was within "God's day".
God did not kill Adam as he was still going to have children with his wife Eve. If God had killed Adam then the human race would have ended then in the garden.
So no cherry picking here, just seeing the obvious.
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Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:
“Cursed is the ground for your sake;
In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.
Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,
And you shall eat the herb of the field.
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
For dust you are,
And to dust you shall return.”
(Genesis 3:17-19)
It is obvious from what God told Adam on the day he ate of the tree that God expected Adam to live more than just that one day for God says to Adam that he would toil "All the days of your life." So we know from this that God was referring to the day that Adam ate of the tree and not to the day that Adam would die, for Adam went on to live over 900 years before he died.
Originally posted by FMFare you saying that the term 'day', cannot have different connotations and shades of meaning in a work which consists of 66 books written by over forty authors over a period of 1500 years? really? you expect the term to be used consistently by each author, in every book in every epoch? Can you explain why that should be the case? If not then you accusation of 'cherry picking', is unfounded, unsubstantiated and has no more substance than air in a hot air balloon.
Is not defining the word "day" in different ways at different times in the same literature ~ so as to bolster a particular ideological approach to the interpretation of the text ~ isn't it simply what is commonly known as 'cherry picking'?
Originally posted by FMFand yet when asked you can provided a single iota of evidence to substantiate your claim. Do you really expect the people here to take you at your word when you have been caught making similar truth statements without a shred of evidence?
It's also "obvious from what [the Bible says] God told Adam on the day he ate of the tree" that the story is allegorical.