Do you believe God intended for physical death to occur in His original plan of creation?

Question

And do you think the death referred to in Genesis 2:17 meant just a spiritual death, or both a spiritual and physical death? For Adam and Eve did not die on the day they ate the fruit of the tree of good and evil. Do you think even if they hadn't eaten of the fruit, we still would've experienced a painless physical passing from earth to heaven? Do you believe the verse meant just a spiritual death?

I am really wondering, so try not to make anything up.

Answer 1

No. Death was only the result of disobedience. Had Adam and Eve been obedient, they would never have died.

Romans 5:12 “That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned.”

Death would never have spread to all men if Adam and Eve never sinned.

Thankfully, the whole ordeal concerning suffering and death is soon near it's end. People all over the world today have the opportunity to be the first humans in history to never experience death!

1 Corinthians 15:22-26 “For just as in Adam all are dying, so also in the Christ all will be made alive... The last enemy, death, is to be brought to nothing.”

Revelation 20:14 “And death... [will be] hurled into the lake of fire.”

Revelation 21:4 “And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”

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Answer 2

My opinion is that if they hadn't eaten of the fruit, we still would've experienced a painless physical passing from Earth to Heaven if we had experienced one at all. Pain, aging, and death came after they sinned so I don't think any of that was in his original plan of creation.

Answer 3

I do believe so. I might mean that they were intended to continue to learn and grow into more and more perfect beings, perhaps graduating into a more ephemeral spiritual realm nearer to God. I believe human beings were made for the Earth. I don't think it meant a spiritual death. I think it means a permanent death, without hope of any Resurrection, either here or in the far, vast future, either here on Earth, or in any other realm.

Answer 4

I'm a Muslim and i know you arent, but our religion kinda share the same thing about adam and eve wereby ,they were departed from heaven unto earth. for the mistake they made. From an Islamic point of view, everyting that happens is within God.s will and plan. Nothing happens outside his knowledge and will.

Answer 5

I believe that God intends for men and women to be immortal. That immortality was inherent in His first men and women. When they sinned, they lost their immortality (the wages of sin is death), even though they did not die the same day. I believe that the only eternal life is the eternal life Jesus came to purchase for us on the cross. (the gift of God is eternal life.)
In other words, death is both spiritual and physical...and permanent. Only by the grace of God in Jesus may we enjoy the gift of eternal life.

Answer 6

Good question. A lot of other people have asked that.

I've often wondered why, if heaven is such a desirable place, the opportunity to ever see it was given to us as a 'punishment'.

Answer 7

I think He did plan for man to live forever. In fact that is one of the reasons they were kicked out of the garden, so they would not eat of the "Tree of Life"

Answer 8

I doubt it. It was later that he decided that faith should be a Guilt Trip for his human creation.

Answer 9

It's a myth. www.godisimaginary.com

Answer 10

no