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Originally posted by Fljotsdale:
Oh, sheesh, Larry! I get so fed up of that old excuse being trotted out all the time.
Look - if you tell someone they will die if they eat something, the person EXPECTS to DIE. DROP DOWN DEAD.
If you only mean they will fall out of your favour/die spititually (however bad you think that is) then it it is DECEPTION not to tell them so!!! Grrrrrr!!!!!
Satan was telling half truths? SO WAS GOD, too!
Which, then, was worse?  
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Yes, you're partially correct. If you tell someone today, "they will die if they eat something," then they will assume that you mean fall over and die. But remember Adam and Eve were the first humans on this globe without the experience of seeing others die from posioning. In fact they, at that point in time had never seen death. They had no point of referrence for what it means to fall over and die. That is other than any knowledge that God imparted to hem during those times that God talk with them in the garden. To say Adam and Eve would assume the outcome would be something that they were quite possibly not even aware of, is a jump in logic. Quiet presumabley God had conveyed his intent that something terrible would happen where they would spiritually die. Also as I have pointed out in one previous theological discussion, translations while achieving a high degree of accuracy are rarely perfect. I would have to agree with Larry, God's intent was spiritual death and no misleading, on God's behalf, took place.
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[This message has been edited by onthepequod (edited 09-09-2001).]