Corpus-Paul

["Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT home.com>]

Liz Fried wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Edgar Krentz [mailto:ekrentz AT lstc.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 12:05 PM
> > To: Corpus-paul
> > Subject: [corpus-paul] Re: Jesus and death
> >
> >
> > This question seems very similar to the query, would Adam have died
> > had he and Eve not sinned?
> But of course they would have unless they later ate of the tree of life. It
> was to prevent them from eating of it and from gaining eternal life that
> they were ejected.
> Liz
>

Two responses. The question about Adam is not as cut and dried or self 
evident as Liz's
"of course" would have us believe. See the discussion of this by von Rad in 
his
commentary on Genesis.

Second, C-P is not the place to discuss this particular issue. So unless it 
can be
brought within the purview of Paul's first Adam/Last Adam theology or some 
other aspect
of matters Pauline, please refrain from  posting further on it.

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson
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