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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
Was that the last significant reference to eating in the Bible? (And didn't Jesus saying something about eating Me and living?)
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And didn't Jesus say that his eating was to do the will of the Father, and just as he obeyed the Father, we were to obey his commands? (But you ignore this every time it's raised, will do so here as well)."Thy words were found and I did eat them" is thus contextually being interpreted by Jesus as obedience to commands. Do you willfully ignore this interpretation, in favor of Lee's? That's what it begins to look like.
The problem with Lee's version isn't just that it's unprovable, though he presented it as though it were proved. The real problem is that you buy in and subsequently end up ignoring, downplaying, or waving-away of other verses, just as 'crucial' as the ones that his theology was built on. (Or you generously concede that there are various understandings, all equally true-ish, including yours.)
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Originally Posted by OBW
I actually believe that if it was really so important to think in this way, the command would have been more specific. Or the confrontation afterward would have been more about something that got inside rather than how the outward would be.
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What came afterward, cited repeatedly in NT epistle, is thematic continuation of the Genesis 3 episode. First there's some connection with God, meant to be maintained through strict obedience to God's command, yet disobedience follows and then there's separation, and consequences of separation: death, darkness, chains, gloomy pits, cries of anguish.
The first that comes to mind is Genesis 6:1-6, cited by Peter and Jude. The angels kept not their appointed place, but transgressed, and were given up. Nothing about eating, but rather about disobedience breaking the relationship with God. Then the famous wilderness episode, cited by both Paul in 1 Corinthians 10 and also the writer of Hebrews (chap 3). God saved them from bondage in Egypt, yet afterward this rescue was severed by disobedience, and they fell. (note that this was written as instruction to believers!) In the narrative structure, there's assumed a relationship, a command, some disobedience, and then a giving-up by God. Similar to Genesis 3, no?