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.