On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Vernon Jenkins wrote:
> "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden
> thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and
> evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
> thou shalt surely die." (Gen.2:16,17)
>
>
> Every age has raised its own echoes of the serpent's lie, but none more
> so than our own. It is clear that for many Christians nowadays
> interpretation of Holy Scripture has taken the place of the simple
> literal acceptance of what God has to tell us. Man's 'Eden' experience
> is wilfully ignored, as too are the stern warnings of 2Tim.3:15,16 and
> 2Pet.3:16. It is therefore pertinent to ask why so many are persuaded
> that, poetry and parables excepted, the Bible is not to be understood
> literally? Indeed, the onus is surely upon them to explain to us why
> they behave so.
>
Vernon,
Since you believe that such stern warnings have been issued against anyone
who doesn't take every statement in Scripture literally (except for
parables and poetry), I want to know how you manage to interpret both
of the words `day' and `die' literally in Gen. 2:17, which you quoted
above.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
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