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NASB | Genesis 2:16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may freely (unconditionally) eat [the fruit] from every tree of the garden; |
Subject: So she should only be eating fruit? |
Bible Note: Hi Songbirdca, "But how can a perfect world (Eden) have included meat-eating?" I never said that it did. I said: " If Adam started eating meat at the first he would destroy and make extinct certain species;". They were created on the same day. So, if you kill one of them to eat how would they reproduce? And the Scriptures do not say that they ate meat either. Not until after man sinned was there a change. Like I pointed out before, the direct authority written in Scripture was given to Noah (Gen 9:3-4). And that was about 600 or so years after Adam. Abel, the son of Adam, was a keeper of sheep (the first shepherd slain by his own kind), now whither he raised the sheep for food or wool the Scriptures do not expressly say. And when Abel offered sacrifices to the Lord, it does not say that the sacrifices were burnt offerings either. These are innuendoes and can be very speculative. Or consider how Noah knew which were the clean animals and which were the unclean animals to bring into the ark. The Scriptures are silent about how Noah knew these things. And yet we can see, with a spiritual eye, that when God made coats of skin for Adam and Eve, they beheld the first death recorded, the first sacrifice for sin, a blood sacrifice, Christ in a figure, who is therefore said to be the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Rev 13:8). And God covered them. We can also see a difference in attitude, were before the sacrifice they hid from the Lord, but now a tone of reverence and faith when Eve (concerning Cain) says, "I have gotten a man from the LORD." (Gen 4:1), a glad thing and even a praise to the Almighty God who saved them through His grace. So, who taught Cain and Abel to sacrifice...?, the parents. Gen 4:4 "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof", notice the inference to the Mosaic Laws, 'the firstling and the fat is the Lord's'... another shadow of things to come ... ? Did Adam and Eve eat meat after the first sacrifice ... ? In love, terrib |