Did Adam and Eve have the Holy Sp...Holy Ghost?

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Originally Posted by hometown guy

I don't see any harm with teaching it either way..

The harm is that one view or both is wrong.

You just can't take a scripture of the Old Testament and think it's safe to have it apply to something that it's never meant to apply to. If it's not the breath of life that represents the Holy Ghost in us, then it could be the fruit of life. If it's the fruit of life then it would be wrong to say it's the breath of life, and you can't just arbitrarily say well it works and it still is a good illustration, if that's not what God meant for that to be.

And if it's the breath of life, then it can't be the fruit of life. You can't have it both ways and it's not an arbitrary thing that we can just pick and choose because it looks good. God had certain things in mind when he made those stories and those things actually occurred, and he wants us to get the proper and correct meaning behind it and the foreshadow that they actually project, and it's off key when we just think it could be anything.