Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5e.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!gummo!whuxlb!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5e!jjm From: jjm@hou5e.UUCP (J McParland) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Tough question about Adam + Eve Message-ID: <692@hou5e.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Aug-83 11:04:11 EDT Article-I.D.: hou5e.692 Posted: Wed Aug 3 11:04:11 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Aug-83 21:54:55 EDT Organization: American Bell ED&D, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 27 I happened to be watching TV on Sunday night and saw a video-evangelist giving a sermon about Adam + Eve and the Tree of Knowledge.... I had a very hard time following his logic, so I would like to ask for a clarification from any bible scholars out there on this point: God told Adam and Eve that if they eat from the tree of knowledge "that day they will surely die". Satan told Eve that if they eat from the tree of knowledge "they will surely NOT die". After Adam + Eve eat the fruit, God punishes them, but he does not KILL them. My question is: Did God lie about the peril of eating the fruit? Did Satan tell the truth about the fruit (note that this is a separate issue)? I don't have a bible handy, so maybe someone can post the exact chapter and verse for these passages... Jim McParland (an ex-catholic who kept getting in trouble in catholic high school for asking questions like this) ABI - HO hou5e!jjm