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	<title>Comments on: Genesis 3:15</title>
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	<description>by Dr. Grant C. Richison</description>
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		<title>By: Andy Coleman</title>
		<link>http://versebyversecommentary.com/2001/12/23/genesis-315/comment-page-1/#comment-9060</link>
		<dc:creator>Andy Coleman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michael, the question, &quot;Was eating the apple the infraction?&quot; was rhetorical. All the information I provided afterwards and beforehand show my opinion of it all. I Still Have NOT been proven wrong; the responses have not answered my arguments, but have simply attacked my person and views.  
That to me is a clear sign of where the truth lies in this thread.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael, the question, &#8220;Was eating the apple the infraction?&#8221; was rhetorical. All the information I provided afterwards and beforehand show my opinion of it all. I Still Have NOT been proven wrong; the responses have not answered my arguments, but have simply attacked my person and views.<br />
That to me is a clear sign of where the truth lies in this thread.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael M</title>
		<link>http://versebyversecommentary.com/2001/12/23/genesis-315/comment-page-1/#comment-9058</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael M</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would like to address Andy Coleman&#039;s posting from October 22, 2009 at 12:00 pm.

Andy, I understand where you are coming from when you asked the question, &quot;So eating an apple was the infraction?&quot; 

In Genesis 3:5, the serpent said, &quot;...your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God...&quot; The way I see it, the sin wasn&#039;t necessary the act of eating an &quot;apple&quot;, rather, the sin was that Adam and Eve wanted to be like God. It&#039;s an issue of the heart.

There are sins that are easy to identify. For example, murder and adultery. The Bible clearly states that these two acts are sin.

Matthew 5:21 - &quot;...You shall not commit murder and whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.&quot;

Here the sin is a physical act. It&#039;s interesting to see what the following verse has to say.

Matthew 5:22 - &quot;...everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court...&quot;

Here the sin isn&#039;t a physical act, rather, it&#039;s really an issue of the heart. It&#039;s surprising how God considers murder equally as sinful as hating or being angry with another individual.

Here&#039;s another example.

Matthew 5:27 - &quot;You have heard that it was said, you shall not commit adultery; but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.&quot;

Here, the Bible talks about a physical act (sleeping with another man&#039;s wife) as sin, but the Bible also considers looking at another person lustfully as sin too - again, an issue of the heart.

In conclusion, Adam and Eve&#039;s sin was that they wanted to be like God. In our hearts, only two things can exist and they are mutually exclusive: 1)God or 2)everything else but God. There is no God and ____. When the serpent tempted Adam and Eve, the allure of becoming like God over took their hearts. This effectively threw God out of the their hearts, and the thought of becoming like God became their idol.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would like to address Andy Coleman&#8217;s posting from October 22, 2009 at 12:00 pm.</p>
<p>Andy, I understand where you are coming from when you asked the question, &#8220;So eating an apple was the infraction?&#8221; </p>
<p>In Genesis 3:5, the serpent said, &#8220;&#8230;your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God&#8230;&#8221; The way I see it, the sin wasn&#8217;t necessary the act of eating an &#8220;apple&#8221;, rather, the sin was that Adam and Eve wanted to be like God. It&#8217;s an issue of the heart.</p>
<p>There are sins that are easy to identify. For example, murder and adultery. The Bible clearly states that these two acts are sin.</p>
<p>Matthew 5:21 &#8211; &#8220;&#8230;You shall not commit murder and whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here the sin is a physical act. It&#8217;s interesting to see what the following verse has to say.</p>
<p>Matthew 5:22 &#8211; &#8220;&#8230;everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Here the sin isn&#8217;t a physical act, rather, it&#8217;s really an issue of the heart. It&#8217;s surprising how God considers murder equally as sinful as hating or being angry with another individual.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s another example.</p>
<p>Matthew 5:27 &#8211; &#8220;You have heard that it was said, you shall not commit adultery; but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here, the Bible talks about a physical act (sleeping with another man&#8217;s wife) as sin, but the Bible also considers looking at another person lustfully as sin too &#8211; again, an issue of the heart.</p>
<p>In conclusion, Adam and Eve&#8217;s sin was that they wanted to be like God. In our hearts, only two things can exist and they are mutually exclusive: 1)God or 2)everything else but God. There is no God and ____. When the serpent tempted Adam and Eve, the allure of becoming like God over took their hearts. This effectively threw God out of the their hearts, and the thought of becoming like God became their idol.</p>
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		<title>By: Andy Coleman</title>
		<link>http://versebyversecommentary.com/2001/12/23/genesis-315/comment-page-1/#comment-8252</link>
		<dc:creator>Andy Coleman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I admire Grant&#039;s patience,too.  I enjoyed the debate that took place between the two of us.  I only wish that he disproved what I said instead of attacking my views.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I admire Grant&#8217;s patience,too.  I enjoyed the debate that took place between the two of us.  I only wish that he disproved what I said instead of attacking my views.</p>
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		<title>By: Boxley Boggs</title>
		<link>http://versebyversecommentary.com/2001/12/23/genesis-315/comment-page-1/#comment-8250</link>
		<dc:creator>Boxley Boggs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Grant,  I admire your patience with Andy but was glad when you finally told him how bizarre his interpretations are!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Grant,  I admire your patience with Andy but was glad when you finally told him how bizarre his interpretations are!</p>
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		<title>By: Grant</title>
		<link>http://versebyversecommentary.com/2001/12/23/genesis-315/comment-page-1/#comment-7261</link>
		<dc:creator>Grant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Andy, your interpretations are so far off the mark that I should not bother responding to you. Your interpretations impose your ideas on Scripture. There is no biblical evidence for them. Zero! In hermeneutics, your interpretations would be rejected out of hand. They are not worthy of comment. To impose ideas on Scripture violates the Word of God and misrepresents what the Word of God has to say. My comments are derogatory only in the sense that your views are so off the mark from any credible interpreter that they need to be exposed for what they are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Andy, your interpretations are so far off the mark that I should not bother responding to you. Your interpretations impose your ideas on Scripture. There is no biblical evidence for them. Zero! In hermeneutics, your interpretations would be rejected out of hand. They are not worthy of comment. To impose ideas on Scripture violates the Word of God and misrepresents what the Word of God has to say. My comments are derogatory only in the sense that your views are so off the mark from any credible interpreter that they need to be exposed for what they are.</p>
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		<title>By: Andy Coleman</title>
		<link>http://versebyversecommentary.com/2001/12/23/genesis-315/comment-page-1/#comment-7253</link>
		<dc:creator>Andy Coleman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eve COULD eat the apple and any other fruit because we read in 3:2, &quot;We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden.&quot; She put difference between those trees and the &quot;tree&quot; in the midst of the garden. She could not eat of it nor Touch it. This is a big difference. 
*When it says Adam also ATE of the fruit, this means he and Eve were involved afterwards. I believe Gen. 4:1 is a reference to this exact time in their lives. 

Oh, by the way, it is Very Possible that a woman can have 2 children in two different wombs within her. I saw this thing happen with a woman on the news just a couple weeks ago.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eve COULD eat the apple and any other fruit because we read in 3:2, &#8220;We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden.&#8221; She put difference between those trees and the &#8220;tree&#8221; in the midst of the garden. She could not eat of it nor Touch it. This is a big difference.<br />
*When it says Adam also ATE of the fruit, this means he and Eve were involved afterwards. I believe Gen. 4:1 is a reference to this exact time in their lives. </p>
<p>Oh, by the way, it is Very Possible that a woman can have 2 children in two different wombs within her. I saw this thing happen with a woman on the news just a couple weeks ago.</p>
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		<title>By: Andy Coleman</title>
		<link>http://versebyversecommentary.com/2001/12/23/genesis-315/comment-page-1/#comment-7251</link>
		<dc:creator>Andy Coleman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Adam and Eve&#039;s punishment show what they did. It&#039;s veiled language. The apple isn&#039;t mentioned either. See Proverbs 30:20. 
&quot;Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she EATETH, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.&quot;
Eve ATE the fruit. (Gen. 3:6). 

In verse 2 of Gen. 3, Eve replied to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: (3) But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye TOUCH (Hebrew Naga, meaning &quot;lay the hand upon&quot;; euphem., To lie with a woman&quot;) it, lest year ye die. Concerning the word Touch, see 1 Cor. 7:1. &quot;...It is good for a man not to touch a woman.&quot; 
This is all the same concept: some sort of sexual intercourse is happening in all three verses-Proverbs 30:20, Gen. 3:6, and 1 Cor. 7:1. 
That is not a &quot;skewed&quot; interpretation of scripture. That is an unadulterated, pure, and clean interpretation. I would appreciate it if you would lay off on the derogatory comments concerning my views. 
Let&#039;s keep this productive.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Adam and Eve&#8217;s punishment show what they did. It&#8217;s veiled language. The apple isn&#8217;t mentioned either. See Proverbs 30:20.<br />
&#8220;Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she EATETH, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.&#8221;<br />
Eve ATE the fruit. (Gen. 3:6). </p>
<p>In verse 2 of Gen. 3, Eve replied to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: (3) But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye TOUCH (Hebrew Naga, meaning &#8220;lay the hand upon&#8221;; euphem., To lie with a woman&#8221;) it, lest year ye die. Concerning the word Touch, see 1 Cor. 7:1. &#8220;&#8230;It is good for a man not to touch a woman.&#8221;<br />
This is all the same concept: some sort of sexual intercourse is happening in all three verses-Proverbs 30:20, Gen. 3:6, and 1 Cor. 7:1.<br />
That is not a &#8220;skewed&#8221; interpretation of scripture. That is an unadulterated, pure, and clean interpretation. I would appreciate it if you would lay off on the derogatory comments concerning my views.<br />
Let&#8217;s keep this productive.</p>
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		<title>By: Grant</title>
		<link>http://versebyversecommentary.com/2001/12/23/genesis-315/comment-page-1/#comment-7249</link>
		<dc:creator>Grant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Andy, yes, eating the apple was the sin; that is what the Bible says, not some conjecture pulled out of the air. Adam also participated in that sin. Did he commit adultery with the snake!? The giants came from intermarriage with fallen angels (apparently according to Jude 6). 

Andy, I am afraid you are using very poor interpretative principles. You interpolate much of your thinking on Scripture rather than let Scripture speak for itself. This is what is called eisegesis, not exegesis. For a doctrine to be true, the Word of God must declare it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Andy, yes, eating the apple was the sin; that is what the Bible says, not some conjecture pulled out of the air. Adam also participated in that sin. Did he commit adultery with the snake!? The giants came from intermarriage with fallen angels (apparently according to Jude 6). </p>
<p>Andy, I am afraid you are using very poor interpretative principles. You interpolate much of your thinking on Scripture rather than let Scripture speak for itself. This is what is called eisegesis, not exegesis. For a doctrine to be true, the Word of God must declare it.</p>
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		<title>By: Andy Coleman</title>
		<link>http://versebyversecommentary.com/2001/12/23/genesis-315/comment-page-1/#comment-7240</link>
		<dc:creator>Andy Coleman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So eating an apple was the infraction? 

The giants were very tall several generations down the line. Those tall genes had to come from somewhere. Nature, as it reflects God, would have it that because giants were produced, say by the angels and man, that genetics would be relevant in the angels. Thus the tall gene would be from them. 

That is all IF the Angels did come down and marry the daughters of men.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So eating an apple was the infraction? </p>
<p>The giants were very tall several generations down the line. Those tall genes had to come from somewhere. Nature, as it reflects God, would have it that because giants were produced, say by the angels and man, that genetics would be relevant in the angels. Thus the tall gene would be from them. </p>
<p>That is all IF the Angels did come down and marry the daughters of men.</p>
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		<title>By: Grant</title>
		<link>http://versebyversecommentary.com/2001/12/23/genesis-315/comment-page-1/#comment-7234</link>
		<dc:creator>Grant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Andy, I believe that the extraordinary creatures in Genesis 6 were fallen angels. See Jude 6. However, no one has a final answer on that question. All interpreters view that passage as very difficult. 

There is no evidence whatsoever that angels are the same size of the Cherubim in the temple. They were merely symbols of holy angels that protect the Holy of Holies. 

There is no scholar, credible interpreter of Scriptures that hold to your skewed interpretation of Scripture about Eve committing adultery with Satan, etc.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Andy, I believe that the extraordinary creatures in Genesis 6 were fallen angels. See Jude 6. However, no one has a final answer on that question. All interpreters view that passage as very difficult. </p>
<p>There is no evidence whatsoever that angels are the same size of the Cherubim in the temple. They were merely symbols of holy angels that protect the Holy of Holies. </p>
<p>There is no scholar, credible interpreter of Scriptures that hold to your skewed interpretation of Scripture about Eve committing adultery with Satan, etc.</p>
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