Charles Perry Locke wrote:
>Blain wrote::DAVEH: ??? Really? Is that commonly believed by most Protestants, Perry?
>.......Does that answer your question, Laura? Now let me ask you a
>couple.......IF Adam had not transgressed, he would have been immortal.
>I assume you agree with that? Then, do you believe immortal men and
>women can have children? Now let me take it a step further......suppose
>Eve had partaken of the FF and had fallen, but Adam had not transgressed
>and remained immortal. Do you think Adam (being in a higher state of
>immortality) could have had children with Eve (in a lower state of
>mortality)?If I may interject, neither Adam nor Eve were physically immortal to start
with.
The death that God was talking about was spiritual death!DAVEH: When God said to Adam thou shalt surely die if he partook of the FF, you believe he was not speaking about physical death? I just want to make sure I am understanding you on this, Perry. So......if A&E had partaken of the fruit of the tree of life instead of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil......then would they have lived on into mortality? May I assume you believe the tree of life's benefit is directed to physical life as contrasted to spiritual life?
Recall that
they were bannished from the garden so they would not partake of the tree of
life and, thus, live forever in a fallen and unredeemable state. Kicking
them out of the garden was an act of mercy, to remove them from the presence
of the tree of life, thus allowing them to be remain redeemable.Gen 3:22b-24 ...and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the
tree of life, and eat, and live for ever; 23 Therefore the LORD God sent him
forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden
Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of
the tree of life.Perry
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