Young Earth Creationism.

37818 I believe you need to start to think "outside the box".

Many have said that there is no singular place in scripture that teaches the Trinity (for instance).
It must be logically distilled by an array of scripture. It took about 3 centuries of debate, sometimes even violent.

The Tree of Life is an expression which speaks of Jesus Christ because there is no other source or fountain of life for humanity. He said "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life".

I don't think we can determine just how that manifestation demonstrated itself in the Garden.
The scripture calls it a tree so for now I accept that.
To think outside the box, the Hebrew seems to indicate an entity which emanated energy sources into branches.

We just don't know.
Like I said, for nor I accept that it looked like a tree, had fruit which could be harvested and consumed.

Later in the kingdom, if it matters then, we will know, we shall be like Him, we shall see Him as He is.

 

No it doesn't. It is a simple statement of fact.

Genesis 2:17 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.

We have have no idea concerning Adam's expansive intellectual capacity and ability to think conceptually.

Also, to return to the earth was all Adam needed to know about death "dust thou art to dust thou shalt return".

 

Genesis 2:17 says no such thing. It is a promise of death ONLY.

Genesis 2:17 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.

And in fact Romans 5:12 proves that death entered this world through Adam.

Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

 

YECs believe that Adam's sin made death a reality for the first time. Genesis 2:17 merely shows a potential. The world would not have been good if there was death before Adam's sin. Now the world is a world of sin and death. The wages of sin is death, as you know. Heaven will be good.

 

Now this is the true nonsense statement. He promised that a sacrifice would be made in the future (Christ) but it did not exist yet. Christ existed, but the sacrifice did not. Christ also did not exist in HUMAN flesh yet. Yet God promised a human deliverer.

 

How do you get that from the text? Gen 2:17 sure doesn't say that death existed. Exegete that please.

 

I'm through with the ping-pong debate. Let the readers decide.

 

None of those verses support your position.

 

I imagine that you have believed that for millions and millions of years.

 

Very few believed that until Darwinism became rampant!

 

Come on. That is nonsense. How would Adam & Eve even understood the warning then if they had not seen death already?

Considering the reproductive rate of insects, the Garden of Eden would have been overran.

 

Aristotle believed the Earth was eternal. James Hutton blew away the belief in a 6000 year old Earth a century before Darwin.

 

Lol. Thank chart is only to illustrate the common ancestor of chimps and man and to follow the lineage of man. It isn't to follow the lineage of chimpanzees.

I am not sure if you are just being ignorant or purposefully deceitful.

 

Well, we don't understand God's ability to explain the unknowable to Adam and Eve.
He is capable of that you know.
Before they actually died -
Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Bugs - we don't know if there as a specific number of bugs made which wouldn't die.
And/or we don't know the dynamics of reproduction before the sin of Adam.
whether reproduction stopped after the commandment was filled to "fill the earth".

Plus scripture -

Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.