Harold,
Thanks for getting a quick response out!
You said that they had no other command, and it is true that they had no other negative command, but were they not positively commanded to eat of every tree in the garden?
When they were told to eat of every tree in the garden(which includes the tree of life), most translations seem to render it something like, "Of any of the trees, you may freely eat", but if the two tenses of die are an emphatic statement about death, are the two "eat"s not an emphatic command to eat from ALL of the trees, not simply a license to eat from ANY?
And if so, by violating the negative command of not eating from the more enticing tree of knowledge, did they not jeopardize their ability to follow the positive command to eat from every other tree, including the one that, according to Scripture, would have given them eternal life?
Can you clarify the Hebrew for me, as it regards the phrase containing the two "eat"s? I apologize for my ignorance, and that my only knowledge of Hebrew comes from the Strong's, what I've gained from and e-sword, but it seems from what I've been told about two tenses of the same verb increasing the intensity of the verb, and from the Strong's definition of kôl, which is "every" and "all", that they disobeyed two commands, the positive and the negative.
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