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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Genesis 1-5

I think it's a pitty that we just read Genesis by ourselves without exchanging our reflections. So I'd like to pose some questions which I thought of as I read. If anyone has any thought, please give your comments ^^. Hope that there are some more dialogues and discussions other than the fulfillment of responsibility of posting on Weekends.

1. God told Adam and Eve that they will surely die when they eat the fruit of that tree. However, in a world without death, how do they understand the term of God's warning?  How are they be able to afrid of death?

→ Sorry, let me interrupt myself, because an idea suddenly came to my mind. I think the point should not be whether they understand the meaning of death or not, even should not either be the excuse of their betrayal to their promise. No matter how they understand what God said and did, if they love God and trust God, they must obey it unconditionally. So the dialogue between the ancestors and the serpent should be like this way, 

-"Hey, you will not surely die. Come on, you even know nothing about dying!"
-"Sorry, Mr. Serpent, even though we don't know what dying is, we never eat it."
-"Why? You stubborn..."
-"Warum? Kein warum. For God said no. That's it."

Just like our cases today, sometimes we are not able to understand God's intention, but if our love and trust in God is enough, then we can preserve our promise with God, without any reason.

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