Love that mafioso tone those loving promises always have. “Nice soul ya got dere. Be a shame if sumfin happened to it.”
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Eternal death has a kind of Mafioso tone to it....by the way
“Nice soul ya got dere. Be ashamed if sumfin happened to it.” We’re all born with a “horse’s head” already thrown into our cribs, it’s the curse of our species!
Now be a nice statue and let God make you truly alive.
I think I’ve said this to you before: You are Psyche, too...and God would show you his face!(drawn from “Till we have Faces by CS LEWIS...another book I desperately recommend to you)....
By the way:
John 3:16-18
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.