Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Studying the Bible (NRSV)

This will be the first in a series, I’m going to read the bible and whenever a particular section speaks to me I will write about it here.

Gen.3:22-24

Then the Lord God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life.

 

Some people claim that humanity lost our immortality when we were drove from the garden of Eden. This I find to be impossible, humanity was never immortal, otherwise God would not have feared us eating of the tree of life, we would not have been driven from the garden. Sure we lost the potential to be immortal, but you cannot lose what you do not have to begin with.

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