What was the flaming sword for?
2007-01-16 02:16:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The flaming sword spoken of in the book of genesis is only a picture of mind a metaphor telling that the guard on the tree of life was heavy....
... the story of Adam and Eve is meant to be taken in a spiritual form and NOT literal form!
2007-01-16 02:24:37 · answer #1 · answered by Cheers For All 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Murder is killing without just cause. There would have been just cause if they had gone directly against God's commandment to stay out...and if they had been stupid enough to try walking past the armed guards.
Besides, the sword was a deterrent. As far as record goes, nobody ever tried to enter Eden after Adam and Eve were kicked out. It was never used, and God would know that people wouldn't stand up to the flaming sword and a troop of cherubim. It was a powerful enough threat that it was never challenged.
2007-01-16 02:49:12 · answer #2 · answered by Mad Tinkerer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not. Yes, even before Cain slew Abel.
And the flaming sword was put into place to prevent Adam and Eve from getting access to the tree of life. Which, believe it or not was an act of mercy. Why? So that they would not and could not live forever in their now fallen state.
If you look into the original Hebrew, you'll find where God said that in the day you eat of it you shall surely die, it means dieing you shall die. A reference to the aging process,with all of the sickness and disease to eventual physical death? I believe that is the meaning. God mercifully prevented them from suffering this way.
2007-01-16 02:26:40 · answer #3 · answered by Jed 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says the Flaming Sword was to guard against reentering the garden, period. The word murder or even kill was not mentioned. So we simply have to wait and ask him that question I guess.
2007-01-16 02:27:03 · answer #4 · answered by Heaven's Messenger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The flaming sword was to bar them from the Tree of Life. If they ate it, and lived forever, then they would keep sinning, and the world would become more and more evil. By causing them to die physically, He put a cap on how evil people could become.
2007-01-16 02:25:29 · answer #5 · answered by STEPHEN J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
why would God plan murder...the flaming sword was to keep Adam and Eve out of the perfect place he created for them because they fell into sin.
2007-01-16 02:58:32 · answer #6 · answered by sopitamaggie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-07 06:00:34 · answer #7 · answered by cosco 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To keep Adam and Eve out of the Garden.
If Adam or Eve wished, they could have had the sword kill them, but that would have been suicide.
2007-01-16 02:38:42 · answer #8 · answered by tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it murder if God tells people not to do something lest they die, and then they go and do it anyway?
2007-01-16 10:52:19 · answer #9 · answered by Beng T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just to singe Adam and Eve, I think, not kill them. Metal conducts heat very well, of course. Kind of like a primitive electric fence, I guess...
2007-01-16 02:21:17 · answer #10 · answered by XYZ 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋