2006-07-16 12:37:25 · 38 answers · asked by vanessa 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He didn't die right away. Eating the apple took away Adam and Eve's immortality.
No, they suffered on for years!!!!!
2006-07-16 12:39:31 · answer #1 · answered by oldsoul 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vanessa, death entered the world when Adam and Eve partook of the forbidden fruit. Death has been with us every since.
Presumably, Man was intended to live forever until God's mandate was broken by partaking of the forbidden fruit.
Adam fathered Cain and Abel, in case you are still not clear on that point.
Also, holy scripture does not have it that the forbidden fruit was an apple. It just speaks of the Tree of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong and its fruit forbidden to Adam and Eve.
God said to Adam and Eve that if they partook of the forbidden fruit they would surely die. And they are no longer with us. Man has been dying ever since. The Bible is not to be taken literally. Yes it is true, Adam and Eve died, but not instantly as the passage of scripture would appear to imply. And the forbidden fruit was not an apple. We don't know what it was.
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2006-07-16 12:50:30 · answer #2 · answered by H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve didn't die because they ate the forbidden fruit: their punishment was the exile from the garden of Eden to earth in order to live life of hard work.
Adam is the father of both Cain and Abel (what brings me even more interesting question: did they all have forbidden sexual relations between them? how else did they populate earth?).
2006-07-17 09:55:31 · answer #3 · answered by yotg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where do you get Adam died after Eve ate the apple.
2006-07-16 12:40:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve never existed. It's a made up story. If Eve came from Adams rib they would share the same DNA. Thus being more of sister and brother than man and wife. Talking snakes, 900 year old men ? Yeah, right...
2006-07-16 12:46:11 · answer #5 · answered by Kaori 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He didn't die! In fact, Cain and Abel were born after Adam and Eve ate the fruit...and I'm pretty sure that they were concieved after the eating aswell...
2006-07-16 12:45:34 · answer #6 · answered by cheshirecat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
adam didnt die right after he and eve ate the apple. God meant they would die eventually, after a hardships and punishments. after they were cast out of The Garden, eve had two sons, cain and abel. many years after that, adam and eve died.
2006-07-16 12:43:19 · answer #7 · answered by . 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know where you got the idea that Adam dies because he was the father of both Cain and Abel.
2006-07-16 12:40:38 · answer #8 · answered by drg5609 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam didnt die. Both Eve and Adam ate the apples, God got angry, they ran around scared, next thing they knew they were both here on Earth and God was talking them through how to live. Adam liked for like 900 years.
2006-07-16 12:40:38 · answer #9 · answered by confused 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve were driven from the garden of Eden and Adam lived for hundreds of years after that. He even talked with Moses and that is where the bible got it's first books.
2006-07-16 12:41:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, I think you have your time-line a little mixed up. Here is my understanding of creation(remembering that I am only human and as such not perfect.)
1. God creates Adam and Eve
2. God tells Adam not to eat from this particular tree.
3. The serpent attempts to destroy God's creation by encouraging/tricking Eve into eating the fruit so that Adam will also.
4. They do so.
5. God is disappointed in his children, so he casts them out of Eden(or paradise)
6. They wander the earth looking for a home
7. They have children
8. They die out in the wilderness, separated from God.
Children first, then death....as any parent will tell you kids create stress, give them gray hair, and finally wear them out so then they die. ;)
2006-07-16 12:49:36 · answer #11 · answered by aurora 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋