gordon brown wrote:
> ...I want to know how you manage to interpret both of the words `day'
> and `die' literally in Gen. 2:17 ...
Gordon,
Clearly, since Eve did not literally 'give up the ghost' following the
eating of the fruit on that fateful day (Gen.3:6), we infer that the
word 'die' has to refer to deadness of a different kind - as, for
example, the loss of feeling in the hand that might be caused by poor
circulation of blood in the arm. Thus, with the broad sweep of
scriptural truth in mind, 'die' in this context has to mean 'separation
from God'; in other words, the fellowship with God that Adam and Eve had
hitherto enjoyed ceased at that point.
I think we can agree that the remainder of the Bible is all about the
rebuilding of that relationship.
Vernon
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