define blood.
It's always amusing to see people (such as yourself) who do not even know what defining is saying things like "define [X]." @Right Divider did, already, define blood, by his quotation of Leviticus 17:11, wherein we learn the fact that blood is something the life of the flesh is in. Do you not like that fact?
then you
Sorry about that double quote. You have not provided a definition. It was a simple question
It was a serious question. "Life of the flesh is in the blood" does that mean without blood there is no life? Or do you need both flesh and blood. Or does it only refer to vertebrates? Or is is a particular reference to humans? Or only connected with humans because other animals do not have souls?
Define define.
You know very well what blood is, so no... it was not a serious question.
By saying that, you again show that you do not even know what defining is. And, were I to ask you to try to explain your thinking that motivates your denial of the fact that the definition presented to you is a definition, the best you can hope to do is to mindlessly repeat your assertion by saying something like "Because it's not a definition!" You don't even know what defining is, parrot.
To where are you referring by your word "there"? Are you referring to in the flesh? Clearly, according to the definition of blood given by God in Leviticus 17:11, no life is IN THE FLESH if no blood is IN THE FLESH since the life of the flesh is IN THE BLOOD.
Generally blood refers to the circulatory fluid in vertebrates. Haemolymph is the equivalent in invertebrates and plants I guess would be---sap?
Blood doesn't refer. To anything. But someone saying the word "blood" might refer to something by their saying the word "blood". To what are you referring by your phrase "the circulatory fluid in vertebrates"?
"The equivalent" of what? "Equivalent" how?
What exactly do you mean by your phrase "using the Biblical language"?
What do you mean by "alive"?
No death occurred before the Fall, so why would you even want to call anything that occurred before the Fall, "death"?
"blood" is the circulatory fluid in vertebrates. that is a definition--see how easy that is. You seemed to have trouble with a definition earlier
Then the definition in ancient times is the same as now. "Blood" is found in vertebrates.
"Blood" is a word, not a fluid. I grant you, though, that "blood" circulates--in verbal discourse. I mean, "blood" is indeed one of the many words people say from time to time.
To what are you referring by your pronoun, "that"?
How easy what is?
What are you even talking about? What would you even mean by "have trouble with a definition"? Your saying that is nothing but cognitively-meaningless noisemaking, an emotional outburst. It's just you lashing out in your anger. You don't even know what defining is. And, since you don't know what defining is, how do you imagine you benefit by your continually throwing around the word "definition" mindlessly?
Death, in the biblical sense of the word, is always a spiritual separation. Physical death happens when one's spirit separates from the body. Spiritual death is when the spirit of a man (human) is separated from God. It is the later of these two that definitely would not have occurred prior to the Fall. Whether physical death was possible is an open question. The Tree of Life existed in the Garden of Eden and so anyone who ate of that Tree certainly would not have died physically but those who had not, it seems, would have been able to die physically. Otherwise, the Tree of Life would have served no purpose.
First question I have is how long was the period between Day 6 and the Fall?
A week.
To paraphrase Sgt Friday "Just trying to get the facts, Maam, just the facts" Because some people make a big deal of "no death before the Fall" and read that as NO DEATH, which seems a little different than your reading. When I say death, I mean actual death, physically, since I dont accept "spiritual" death meaning human spirit separated from God since I dont accept God as a person/thing/actual concept or being. So just trying to sort out your reading of the story--because per you there was animal death pre Fall--insects, rodents, etc. Which effectively deals with the issue of why do felines have big canine teeth etc--it avoids the idea that every animal was a vegetarian preFall.
