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straw said:
The curse involves death (physical) not death spiritual, that only happened if they outside the garden did not walk and worship the Lord. The most certainly deteriorated until... Yes, they were in hot water with God. It is just making Scripture say what it does not that is a true sign of a dogmatic scripturalist. (I hope you don't think I mean you are).

Buzzing,
Straw,

Your rejection of propositional truth for your own "version" of what is acceptable (silly putty doctrine) sounds very familiar. God told Adam directly that on the very day that he ate the fruit of the tree he would die, Gen 2:16, 17. But...


Genesis 3:1-5 (ASV) "Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil."


Now sir, with all your "open mindedness", how is it that God said Adam (and Eve implied) would surely die and you say that this death was only physical, yet Adam lived on to the ripe old age of 930 years? Either God lied or your lone ranger interpretation is wrong. Personally, I tend to believe what God says over what any man says. And the Holy Spirit tells me that you are not speaking truth and to point out your error which is a rejection of God and truth. Methinks your propensity for "openness of thought" is akin to putting a screen door in a submarine.

In my many years of ministering to prison inmates one gets to realize what happens to the mind when it has been exposed to drugs. The thinking processes are negatively affected and it becomes increasingly difficult to focus on things. And articulating those wandering thoughts is likewise a challenge. And so, I can't help but wonder after reading your many rambling replies if perhaps you have a history of drug use/abuse? or is it even now going on? I do agree that something is buzzing aside from the population of hummingbirds which frequent my home.

In His grace,

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