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  • 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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