Crystal Clear

I don’t think I’ve ever been explicitly told this, but I’ve assumed it to be true by what else is said: when God created the world and humans, it was perfect, and there was no death. That only happened after humans sinned that first time.

I was struck that this is probably not the case since after humans took the apple and sinned, God says: “He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” (Genesis 4:5) God wouldn’t have had to say this if humans already lived forever, therefore there must have been death before this point.

It’s funny how we get used to understanding something, not because of what we read from the original source, but because of other things people say or have written. Like the three wise men: the Bible never mentions how many there are. We only know there were three gifts, and there was more than one, but after that, we can hardly make any suggestions.

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