Geeeez just woke up and noticed 1100 comments on this thread and guess who has probably posted at least half of them all by his little self? Our dearest of friends "Divegeester" as usual.
Does he ever work, does he ever sleep, does he ever eat, does he ever go to the potty? Who knows but what a man with his never ending endurance of keeping a thread going beyond the endurance level of any mortal man ( and way beyond common sence of a normal human being ) that walks this planet. He must be a man/God among us weak mortal humans.
All of us now please bow to the man of all men, the awesome man/god "Divegeester"! !!!!
-Removed-I try not to think too much! 😉
To begin with, as far as I can tell the tree of life is a literal tree. Just as is the "tree of knowledge of good and evil."
The objection to literalism is made by man, and as far as I can tell he is full of ..it. Why should I water down the plain language of scripture? When did I get so much knowledge that I can place my word above that of God's? When did any mere mortal become the authority over God's Word?
I keep it simple. Learn what I can from what is written, as it was written, without changing the plain meaning of the Word by adding my own interpretation. It says what it says, and means what it means.
Where it gets tricky is in the application of God's Word to the spirit of man. The union between man and God is in God's Word. God's Word in man. God in man.
The Spirit of God joined to/with the the spirit of man in the body of the man, which God created for that purpose in the first place. As far as I can tell.
-Removed-Hey! What did I say that sets you off like that? Gotta get all bound up over it like your thread had been violated in some way.
I mean, who knows what the soil was like in the garden of Eden anyway? All speculation.
You just don't like it that I believe in the literal account of Genesis. 🙂