PaulThomson said:
But the scripture does not say "what you claim it says, "
If Adam and Eve had eaten from the Tree of Life, they would have lived forever."
It is quite possible that I have breached my principles at some point and noy done what I have advocated to others. I am imperfect. I asked for an example of that so that I could repent if necessary. You provided an example where I did not do what you alleged. So, I don't need to repent in that case. What was yur second alleged case?
Magenta said:
I know you refuse to acknowledge what Scripture says. You should also stop deliberately misrepresenting what I say. You
are being very dishonest, Paul. I have already given this Scripture. You refuse it. What's the point of even talking to you?
And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
So much for irony. There are other examples, too, Paul, of where you do this, meaning, go beyond
what Scripture explicitly says. But what would be the point of showing them to you if you are just
going to dig in your heels and refuse to admit you do the very thing you dislike others doing?
And I am pretty sure I have given two examples already. You have a whole thread full of other examples. Go read it.
The first verb of the verse is without waw, and is qal complete, meaning the man had completed the change, so "he has become like us knowing good and evil."
The next three verbs form a sequential chain beginning with a qal incomplete "he will be putting forth his hand" followed by two weqatal complete forms which in this Hebrew grammatical structure are connected to a leading qal incomplete, and should be understood as the opposite of their apparent forms: understood as incomplete actions even though written in completed action forms. So, "lest he keep taking from the tree of life and keep eating and keep on living
for an age ('oLaM)."
So, the Hebrew readily supports my interpretation that intermittent eating would confer continuance of life after the fall, which is why God cut off access to it. And if intermittent eating from the tree of life would confer extended life after the fall, there is no reason to assume, let alone adamantly insist, that Adam and Eve had not been already eating from it before the fall.
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