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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
Saying it's just "a tree" is simplistic and short-changes its effect. It was a fruit-bearing tree and its fruit was eaten in disobedience. It was food and had the result of death. Does man largely live independent of God now, by constantly making choices of what they see as either good or bad? Sure. Sounds like that fruit is still having an affect.
Roman's 7:17 says sin dwells in the flesh - how did it get there? What is born of flesh is flesh, so we were all born into this world with sin in the flesh. Again, how did it get there?
(and I don't know what you mean by the "blockhead/knucklehead" comment)
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I didn’t say it was
just a tree. You did.
You also said a tree “allows” as though it was some sort of “sentient being”. Trees don’t “allow”.
You are shortchanging the effect of disobedience.
It was disobedience that resulted in spiritual death, not food.
How did sin get into the flesh? Disobedience. Again, disobedience.