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RE: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die

From: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
To: Liz Fried <lizfried AT umich.edu>
Cc: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: RE: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:19:07 -0400

At 01:05 PM 8/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
>The point is that the snake was right,
>not God. Their eyes were opened (3:7), and they did not die
>on the day they ate it as God said they would (2:17).

they died in the spiritual sense however. their relationship with god
ended. the multi-layered intentionality of the story shouldn't be choked
into a one leveled universe.

jim

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Jim West, ThD
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Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Bill Ross, 08/19/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Bill Ross, 08/20/2000
- Re: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Dave Washburn, 08/20/2000
- Re: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Steve Doel, 08/21/2000
- Re: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Peter Kirk, 08/21/2000
- SV: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Thomas L. Thompson, 08/21/2000
- RE: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Bill Ross, 08/21/2000
- RE: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Liz Fried, 08/21/2000
- RE: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Jim West, 08/21/2000
- RE: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Liz Fried, 08/21/2000
- Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Mark Wilson, 08/21/2000
- RE: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Jim West, 08/21/2000
- RE: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Bill Ross, 08/21/2000
- Re: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Tsadowq, 08/22/2000
- SV: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Thomas L. Thompson, 08/22/2000
- Re: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Henry Churchyard, 08/22/2000
- RE: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Liz Fried, 08/22/2000
- RE: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Liz Fried, 08/22/2000
- RE: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die, Mark Wilson, 08/22/2000