A really hard question on Satan and deception.

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I'll always disapprove when scripture is so badly misinterpreted, I know you know that's what happened with these verses. Surely you are not going to lower yourself to defend something you knows wrong.

You won't find an ally in me. Like you said, I can't defend something I KNOW is wrong.

Not looking for you to be an ally, just honest.

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@ IATIA, I'm going to tell you even though I know you will just disagree, the Tree of Life was placed in the garden because God wanted to let us know that such a thing existed. He knew Adam and Eve would fail, with the tree known about it should have been a sign to the Israelites that there would be such a thing as eternal life. Actually we do not know whether they ate from the tree or not, scripture does not state so one way or the other, if they did it would have made no difference, when they eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil they disobeyed God and that sin brought death into the world. God told them that if they ate of that tree they would surely die and many years later they surely died. "Surely die" never meant immediate death then nor does it have that absolute definition today. God knowing what would take place gave all hope of eternal life before Christ came to be our savior. Scripture makes it quite clear that death came into the world because of sin, and specifically that Adam was responsible.

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A little overly verbose for 'I do not know', but that is an acceptable answer for now.

2) The only reference to death is god's threat. If death does not yet exist, how are Adam and Eve supposed to be able to comprehend this particular abstract concept?

In the first place it wasn't a threat, God told them what would happen and it did. Second I would suppose that God explained to them what death was, being omniscient I do not think this would have been such a hard thing to do. You should read he NT also, if you want to find all the answers to this subject, I know you want though because you are not interested in seeing the truth of scripture. By the way I did not say I did not know.

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I disapprove of your terrible misinterpretations of scripture GC, turning god into a petty tyrant. So what? Technically speaking they didn't "bring death into the world" btw, they were cursed (I know I know it doesn't sound as nice, and we like to keep god nice, rgr).

Then please explain how death technically came into the world, you spout a lot of junk but never give any relative explanation.