Posted on 11/12/2009 6:21:42 PM PST by JoeProBono
I follow that Adam and Eve had body, soul, and spirit prior to the fall, but after the sin, they became separated from God in spirit. Death being a state of existence involving separation meaning they no longer had fellowship with God spiritually. They were still alive physically, and soulishly as they recognized they were naked, but without the action of God they did not have spiritual fellowship with Him.
Note also, that after eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, God proceeded to post an angel lest they eat from the tree of everlasting life without appropriate salvation.
The Asgard were cerebral, and yet self-interested. An unusual combination in science fiction. The standard view seems to be that use of reason, as opposed to reflex-emotion, would make “people” altruistic and personally disinterested, but that doesn’t hold up.
Jesus is the ‘Kinsman Redeemer.’
bttt
THANKS THANKS.
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