Genesis 1:27
"17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
The Bible states that God informed Adam and Eve that if they ate from the tree of good and evil, they would die.
However, they DO eat from the tree of good and evil and live. The consequences were not death but shame, orinigal sin, etc.
2006-08-18 05:37:15 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I realize that they did die eventually but no where in the Bible did it ever say that they were ever immortal to begin with.
2006-08-18 05:44:39 · update #1
It does not make sense that they would live forever because God instructed them to reproduce. Eventually the world would become entirely over populated.
2006-08-18 05:46:38 · update #2
The "fruit of the tree of life" was sex. The death of Adam and Eve was the death of their innocence. Their eyes were opened to the knowledge of good and evil.
The Bible cannot be taken literally in this day and age.
My question is, if the devil had sex with Eve, and then she also had sex with Adam...who was really the father of Cain and Abel?
Did anyone bother to do a paternity test? Maybe Satan was really Cain's father and that is why he had enough evil in him to murder his brother...
things that make you go hmmmmmm....
2006-08-18 05:52:08 · answer #1 · answered by mynx326 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, that's the thing, they we're in a state where they wouldn't die because they had access to the tree of life. (I don't know if that's immortal so much as it is suspended). When they were kicked out of eden, they were in a position where they could not get to that tree, and were going to die.
Oh, He's also talking about a spiritual death, which is a separation from God.
2006-08-18 05:48:18 · answer #2 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes he lied. We are living proof of that. But in a way, we all die anyway. But then again god was on drugs at the time. He punished the snake which told eve to eat the apple by making it crawl on its belly forever. It was a snake! It was already doing that. I hope he stops smoking that stuff and gets a grip of the world he's created. For your sake. I don't believe in God. I'm a paramedic, and i know who really saves.
2006-08-18 05:46:24 · answer #3 · answered by Captain Risky Ricky Dishwater 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has never lied and will never lie. God condemns anyone who lies, so how much more himself. That day that Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of good and evil, they died. They didn't fall out and God buried them, but the perfection that God made in them died. They were no longer perfect, but were sinnful. If you read in the bible we see that all sin leads to death. I'm not saying that Adam and Eve went to hell, but the eating of that fruit was a sinnful act because God told them not too.
2006-08-18 05:55:08 · answer #4 · answered by cabbagepatch862004 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No He didn't lie to the.
what he did say was infact to reveal that death is more than just physcally departing fromthe earth.
And yes they did die the moment they ate, because u'll notice that suddenly they saw that they were naked. something had happened spiritually that made them "see" what they couldn't a moment ago. that's the death.
man became spiritually dead and all the problems came alive.
actually whether they ate the fruit or not, they would hv physically died, so it has nothing to do with physical death by the way.
2006-08-18 05:50:51 · answer #5 · answered by lifejourney 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This story actually happened but , what you are talking about was in referance to a spiritual death because in the Old testament before the greatness of Jesus coming to the earth, all sin was punished and the punishment was death, eternally. Thats why Jesus kept telling everyone," I have come, so that you may have life and life more abundantly" and" God so loved the world that he gave Jesus so that all who believe in him will not perish".
2006-08-18 06:20:10 · answer #6 · answered by Catt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, God did not lie to Adam and Eve. God can't lie. The "death" which God described was separation from Him; the second part is the mortal death which Adam and Eve chose when they chose their sin over God's presence.
2006-08-18 05:47:50 · answer #7 · answered by historybuff2009 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Be careful when calling God a liar.
Genesis 1:7 does not say about the Adam. You the have wrong verse.
The correct chapter and verse:
Genesis 2:17"...for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die"
They did die on the same day.
One day with the Lord is as a thousand years with men.
2Pe 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
I hope this helps.
2006-08-18 06:17:43 · answer #8 · answered by LP S 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God intended mankind to live forever. Yes Adam and Eve did die...eventually. Their bodies wore out and decayed, just like yours is doing right now.
2006-08-18 05:43:44 · answer #9 · answered by Baby Bloo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, they eventually did die & every human on the earth has to face death too. If they had not eaten then they would have lived foever.
2006-08-18 05:44:45 · answer #10 · answered by antihero1776 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋