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DIE DIE!

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Genesis 2:16-17 (KJV) And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Adam was given the first commandment of God.  God created a perfect garden for mankind, but it was not a walled prison.  Within it was a doorway of escape.  A forbidding, which Adam could choose of his own free will.   Adam certainly did not understand the consequences of his choosing this path. . . None of us ever do see the paths that sin will lead us on, but God tried to warn Adam. The passage closes with a repetition of the Hebrew word ‘mooth’ Strong's H4191, which means death.  This is a common Hebrew construct to repeat a word for emphasis.  The English translators have chosen across many translations, as ‘thou shalt SURELY die.’ . . . but, what if God was speaking literally?  What if G...