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   XPost: alt.christnet.christianlife   
   From: tiller@soil.org.9   
      
   >> Adam told Eve not even to -touch- that tree.   
      
   > ==  [Adam told not to eat;]   
   > Genesis 2:16-17   
      
   > And YHWH God lays a charge on the man, saying,   
   > “From every tree of the garden eating you eat;   
   > but from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,   
   > you do not eat from it, for in the day of   
   > your eating from it—dying you die.”   
   > ==   
   > Genesis 3:2-[Eve says, "not touch it"]   
      
   > And the woman says to the serpent,   
   > “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we eat,   
   > but from the fruit of the tree which [is] in the   
   > midst of the garden, God has said,   
   > You do not eat of it, nor touch it, lest you die.”   
   > ==   
      
   > now, who added "nor touch it?"   
      
   > God is not the author of confusion [1 Corinthians 14:32-34]   
   > the one conclusion, is, that God tells Adam, and Adam tells Eve   
   > Eve is getting what amounts to a hearsay from Adam, and not a direct reveal,   
      
   > as we never actually see God speaking to Eve.   
   > and The Serpent played on that bit of confusion   
   > The Serpent is the one who outright Lied against God.   
   > it isn't all about Man, The Serpent is getting a lesson.   
      
      
   but, inasmuch as Adam lays on this extra emphasis, "do not even Touch"   
      
   we can see that Adam was trying to -prevent- Eve   
      
     from getting into trouble with that Tree.   
      
   Adam was -not- running around saying;   
      
      
   "God is stoopid, there's nothing wrong with that Tree,   
   in fact, it's in My best interest to eat from it and   
   God is keeping it from me, i'm gunna do as i please."   
      
      
   nope...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)