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- From: ed_eck@milkwy.enet.dec.com
- Subject: Re: THE MIND OF THE BIBLE BELIEVER
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.183004.12650@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:16:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.163307.21853@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>,
- brian@lpl.arizona.edu (Brian Ceccarelli 602/621-9615) writes...
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- >
- >It is sad. Truly a pity. But guess what? God didn't create it that way.
- >He originally created us to live forever.
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- Not at all. Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden specifically
- so that (from later in Genesis) they would not eat of the tree of
- life and live forever ("And become like Us."). God did not give them
- eternal life when they were created and never intended mankind to have
- eternal life. At the expulsion from the garden, God only comdemned
- Adam and his descendents to toil in the fields and Eve and all women
- to bear children in pain (and kick around the serpent now and then),
- not to suffer death. There is no evidence in Genesis that God
- sentenced Man to die.
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- Also, bear in mind that when God announced his prohibition of eating
- from the tree of knowledge, Eve had not yet been created. There is
- no evidence that she had been told of the prohibition by Adam. She
- can hardly be considered guilty of transgressing a rule she didn't know
- about.
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