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| Display: [references|view all] | | | Problem | Why didn't Adam die the day he ate of the forbidden tree? "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." vs. "And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died."
How could Adam live to be 930 years old when God said that he would die the same day that he ate of the forbidden tree? | Date: May 10, 2006 By: Adam Engesath 31 Problems29 Solutions | References | | Genesis 2:17 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. | | Genesis 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. | | Thy Word is True...Solution! | | Date: May 10, 2006 | Posted By: Adam Engesath | Adam did die the same day that he ate of the forbidden tree. He just didn't die physically, but rather spiritually. Once he ate of the fruit, he became just like us when we are born, which is spiritually dead:
"That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I say unto thee, Ye must be born again." John 3:6-7
Just as Jesus is not referring to physical birth in John 3, God was not referring to physical death in Genesis 2. Therefore, Adam died spiritually the day that he ate of the forbidden tree and as a result, every person born after him is born in Adam's image (Gen. 5:3) with a dead Spirit that needs to be born again.
For more info about spiritual death, see Eph. 2:1-5 and 1 Cor 15:35-49. | | Post a solution! |
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