RE: Did Yahweh Set Adam Up?
April 16, 2015 at 11:46 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2015 at 11:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
However the story was meant to be taken - what is absolutely and demonstrably missing is the idea of original sin or of death as a punishment for sin. Jews do not now, nor have they ever, to our knowledge, believed in this. The narrative explicitly references A & E's mortality when it mentions that they would become immortal by eating from the tree of life. You don't have to become something that you already are.
Not that the christians asked......but maybe they should have.
G3:22-24
Not that the christians asked......but maybe they should have.
Quote:And the Etrnl Gd said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the Tree Of Life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the Etrnl Gd sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the Tree of Life.
G3:22-24
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