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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Tough question about Adam + Eve
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Date: Thu, 4-Aug-83 16:05:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  4 16:05:14 1983
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The standard explanation (that I have always heard) is that God
did not mean that they would physically die that day.  He meant
that they would experience a spiritual death - a loss of innocence.

The serpent basically told the truth, but not the whole truth.

In the next chapter of Genesis (chap 3), when God evicts Adam and
Eve from the garden, he does this so that they will no longer have
access to the Tree of Life (the fruit of which would give them
eternal life).  So in a sense, Adam and Eve caused their own
deaths by violating the rules.

The verses you want are in Genesis chapters 2 and 3 (KJV).

Allen England at BTL Naperville, IL
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