Accept the Certainty of Deduction

Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

(Matthew 13:52) KJV

We said when we began this process that we would to take a strictly deductive approach to learning what the Bible is trying to teach us. We made a point of saying that we have to be prepared to accept what we may deduce.

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Genesis 2:17, 3:4

Sunlight filtering throught leave of a knarled tree in the fall

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.

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 it, lest ye die.

(Genesis 2:17, 3:4)

When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil they didn’t immediately drop dead. Does this mean that there’s a contradiction in the Bible?

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