RE: Is Satan shown lying in the bible?
February 3, 2014 at 4:41 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2014 at 4:42 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(February 3, 2014 at 12:00 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote:Quote: God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, lest you die.’" 4 And the serpent said to the woman, "You surely shall not die! 5
Unless eve is walking around somewhere, this is a big fat whopper (within the internal narrative at least.)
I can't give you that one. They are warned they will surely die the day they eat of it. In context, all the serpent is saying is that the fruit isn't poisonous and won't kill you. What killed her was failure to eat from the Tree of Life, and that fruit was never on the menu. There's never any indication at all that Adam and Eve would be immortal if they didn't eat from the Tree of Knowledge.
It was funny how Yahweh was in such a hurry to evict them before they could get a bite off the Life fruit, like there would be no stopping Adam and Eve if they had some of that!
It's a just-so story: Why do we die? Why don't snakes have legs? Why is childbirth painful?
I can't see why people would take it so much more seriously than 'How the leopard got its spots'.
