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[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by Trapped

Genesis 2:9
Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Yes, and did you see my question about these two description of the trees: 1) pleasing to the yes 2) good for food. So were some just #1 and some just #2 and maybe some both?

Also, "In the day you eat of it in dying you will die." (lit)

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

Yes, and did you see my question about these two description of the trees: 1) pleasing to the yes 2) good for food. So were some just #1 and some just #2 and maybe some both?

Also, "In the day you eat of it in dying you will die." (lit)

Gen 2:17 KJV - "for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
ESV - "for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

[Trapped]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

Yes, and did you see my question about these two description of the trees: 1) pleasing to the yes 2) good for food. So were some just #1 and some just #2 and maybe some both?

Also, "In the day you eat of it in dying you will die." (lit)

Yes I did, and I could have sworn I answered it but don't have time to scroll back right now to look. How about this - if I said "I saw a bunch of horses that were wild and free" would you question whether some of them were only wild and some were only free? Nope, you would know that that kind of phrased description applies to all.

And Eve sees both attributes in the TOTKOGAE in chapter 3. Those two attributes are repeated twice, once about all the trees, and another time when Eve is looking only at one. I don't see a way to read it that somehow one adjective phrase refers to some and one adjective phrase refers to others.

If your reasoning is correct, that would mean some were good for food but some weren't. And yet God told them all blanket "you can eat all of them except one". What on earth would God be doing creating some of them NOT good for food but yet telling them they can eat all of them? That's a God who feeds His kids rocks and tells them they are bread!

The phrase "dying you will die" is a known Hebrew idiom that implies judicial punishment, not inherent natural consequence.

[awareness]

Originally Posted by Trapped

The phrase "dying you will die" is a known Hebrew idiom that implies judicial punishment, not inherent natural consequence.

And where is that idiom in Gen.?