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Originally Posted by Trapped
For anyone interested, here's an article on the Hebrew of the phrase "you shall surely die" (or, idiomatically, "dying you shall die"). Their conclusion, in looking at numerous other cases in the OT where similar variations of the phrase are used, is that the phrase points to a matter of judicial punishment, rather than natural consequence.
In other words, the phrase itself supports the thought that in the garden of Eden, death is not shown to be the natural consequence of eating a poisoned tree, but is shown to be God's punishment for sin, for law-breaking, by losing access to the TOL.
https://www.ministrymagazine.org/arc...-you-shall-die
Trapped
P.S. Ironically, no, this is not the "ministry magazine" of LSM. |
Thanks, Trapped. It's interesting to me. I'm wondering, similarly, if we can find any Hebrew usage for life without natural consequences. I think the difficulties surrounding interpretation of Gen 2, 3 is that comparison is not between life and death but life and knowledge.
This morning, I read The Eden Narrative: A Literary and Religio-Historical Study of Genesis 2-3 by Tryggve N. D. Mettinger. The author academically traced back the story and instructive anyway.
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=...20same&f=false
But, one of most well searched academic articles on Gen. 2,3 sounds to me far from being sufficient to fully expose Gen 2, 3, still leaving a lot of derivative questions. So, it is "easy" to debunk Witness Lee's interpretation on Gen. 2, 3, like the youtube channel did, but I'm not sure who can formulate almost perfect interpretation of Gen 2, 3. Even new testament authors, except Revelation, had not mentioned tree of life.
Gubei