I don't have to prove anything at all.
In other words, you admit that there is no basis in Genesis for saying that what God had created was imperfect. Thank you.
the claim was that God said the earth was created "perfect". The text doesn't say that. Not did I say it was imperfect.
Which would you say is the case?
- That which God had created was perfect
- That which God had created was imperfect
In tis one point you are correct.
To which point you are referring?
The snake was punished for encouraging the sin of Even and Adam.
Before, you had claimed that the serpent was "punished for disobeying God":
The only ones punished for disobeying God were Adam, Eve, and the snake- not all creation.
You have, thus far, been silent regarding my having pointed out the fact that you have no textual basis, in Genesis 1-2, for your saying that the serpent was
punished for disobeying God, since, for the serpent to have been disobeying God would necessarily have been for God to have given to the serpent
a commandment to be obeyed. To disobey God is to disobey His commandment(s). Yet,
where,
in Genesis 1-2, do you imagine you have a textual basis for saying that God had given the serpent a commandment to be obeyed? That's right: nowhere. And thus, you have no textual basis in Genesis 1-2 for saying that the serpent was "punished for disobeying God". So, when you say that the serpent was "punished for disobeying God", you do so as a hypocrite, because you say so sans textual basis, while you bark at others, claiming that they have no textual basis for things
they say.
False.
The fact that God threatened them with "death" implies that they knew what "death is".
The fact that God commanded Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit, and that He said they would die, does not imply that Adam and Eve had already known what death is prior to God's commanding them not to eat the fruit, and His saying they would die.
2. Again, I don't need to prove anything.
Translation: "I, chair,
can't prove what I am claiming."
I hear that a lot from errorists like yourself.
Those who claim that "death didn't exist" have no proof of that from the text.
You just got done telling us that you can't prove that anything died prior to Adam and Eve disobeying God's command.
Thus, you have admitted that there is no mention of death as having occurred prior to Adam and Eve disobeying God's command. Thank you.
that is reading a lot more into the text than is actually there.
False. Rather, it is reading nothing into the text, whatsoever.
Yet, your Bible-despising claim (which, as you admit, you can't even prove) that things died prior to Adam and Eve disobeying God's command, is rank, hypocritical eisegesis. Tell us where, in Genesis 1-2, you find it is said, or implied, that one or more things had already died by the time God commanded Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit. That's right: you can't do this, because it's nowhere to be found. Like you have already admitted, you can't even find the word "die" until Genesis 2:17.
And I suggest that you keep your childish insults to your self. You know nothing of me, how I study the Bible, or how many times a day I pray.
I only know that you are fervently committed to your nonsense and falsehood, and to your shallow, irrational, Bible-despising ways of thinking--and I know this from the stuff you post. I don't know how many times a day you do whatever it is you call "praying", and I'm quite OK with not knowing that.
I'm ignoring the rest of your nasty post.
What's the difference? As is your custom, you pretty well ignored most everything in the parts of my post which you
did quote.