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Originally Posted by Pastor Billy-Reuben
Here is a summary for any slow heathens who might be reading this (I realize that 'slow' and 'heathen' are redundant -- I cant imagine why a person with a healthy mind would reject Jesus Christ). • God creates man and woman, both of whom have inquisitive natures but do not know the difference between right and wrong, or good and evil.
• God places the man and woman in a garden.
• God places a tree in the garden and forbids the man and the woman from eating of it, telling them that it would cause them to die that very day. Of course, since they don't know the difference between right and wrong, they have no way of knowing that it is wrong to disobey God.
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This sermon was referred to in the newsletter and I've read the comments with interest. Having reread Genesis before posting, with the relevant verses appended, I can't find where God forbade the woman from eating of the tree specified. At the time of His prohibition, no female humans existed; even after her transgression, Eve was not named immediately but it must have been her. Here are the verses I read earlier:
Genesis 2:8, 15-17 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed ... And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou [singular] mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
How should I answer this criticism?