I have picked fruit from trees, apples from the ground, wild onions from the plant, and so on and so forth... and that being in this fallen world that fights against us with thorn and brier. But this isn't a cash-crop harvest scenario in a post-fall, post-flood world. this is the Paradise of God in Eden with the tree of life for man in its midst, you don't need protective gloves or boots, or clothing of any sort for that matter.
There you go adding protective gloves and boots to what I said. :chuckle:
I'm glad you can boast over your harvesting skills, but you ignore the words of scripture when you do so.
Does this sound like they are supposed to sit around and let apples fall into their laps?
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Do you seriously believe God didn't expect the MAN to rest after dressing and keeping the garden all week long?
Genesis 2:15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Young's goes so far as to say..."And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it." Others say to "cultivate" and "tend" it. That certainly doesn't square with your idea of apples falling into their laps.
Glory, Mark 2:27 is from the Greek (not Hebrew) and the word there for "man" means "mankind" and unlike the Hebrew word which can have either meaning, anthropos (Mark 2:27) does not mean adam (Luke 3:38). If Jesus meant to say "the sabbath was made for Adam" he would have used the name "Adam."
And here I was thinking Adam was part of mankind....the first one, actually. The first man who had a big job cultivating and tending the Garden.
Just for accuracy, that part was my quote. I placed John Gill in the box.
I couldn't make heads nor tails of what you were attempting to say...even with Gill's help. It certainly did not point to Moses if that was the claim.
Your interpretation of Mark 2:27 is not supported by the text. Anthropos does not mean Adam. Past this you're flying forward on unsupported reasoning... or rather circular reasoning, as it depends on accepting the assumption as fact to prove the rest of the argument.
Common sense does support my "interpretation".
The reference to "flying spaghetti monster" refers to the challenge that the premise of the existence of a thing should have some sort of evidence, and not be accepted on an arbitrary say-so. It isn't a reference to the H.P. Lovecraft or the Cult of Cthulhu or the like.
Oops, is that an attempt at condescension? :think:
By the way, apples literally DO fall off the tree into your lap.
I have a lot of apple trees, and they don't fall into my lap....because I'm not lazing around like I had nothing else to do.
