David Dombowsky
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

Hi John,

Thanks so much for your thoughtful response, made my day!

In regards to what you wrote here are some points to consider.

If a curse is “something negative spoken over a person”, was God cursing Abraham when he told him his descendants would be slaves in Egypt for 400 years? was Jesus cursing himself when he said that he would be handed over and killed by the Romans?

I’m fully aware that God does Curse people later on in the Bible, and you are right about there being such thing as a conditional curse.

My definition of a curse is, a spiritual proclamation destining failure or disaster over a person or thing, where normally there would not be. It is spiritual intervention forcing things to go wrong. For example God cursed Cain so that he could no longer grow anything (Gen 4:12). In this case the seed that would normally produce a crop, wouldn’t in the hands of Cain. And you’ll notice that even Cain’s descendants didn’t grown crops. perhaps because the curse affected them too.

Concerning what God said about death as a result of eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, I would consider that a cause and effect statement. “if you hit your finger with a hammer it will hurt, if you eat from that tree you will die.”