Why didn't adam & eve die in the day they ate the forbidden fruit? God lied as he usually does?

Question

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.
Adam lived for 930 years after he ate the fruit. GOD LIED! I wouldn't mind living for so long!

GOTCHA! So 6 days don't mean six 24 hour-days. GOTCHA!

GOTCHA AGAIN! The bible ought not to be taken LITERALLY!

Answer 1

Get ready for the "a day in gods's eyes is different"

I would counter that with what was a day to Adam and Eve? that's who he was talking to and the day he spoke of would have to be a day in their eyes

yes, he lied

Answer 2

When God created Adam and Eve, their days were not numbered. In other words, they could have lived forever. When they sinned, their days became numbered, and they were sure to die. God didn't say they would die instantly. He said they would surely die.

Therefore, God didn't lie, as both Adam and Eve DID die.

P.S. 6 days were 6 24-hour days. He stated and the evening and the morning were 1 day. He didn't say "5 evenings and 4 days went by to make one day."

Yes, the Bible should be taken very literally. There are some parables that Jesus used to help us to understand God's Word. He used these parables as examples. Such as if we are explaining a math problem to a child 4 x 2 =, and you say, "If 4 people bring you 2 apples each, how much would that equal?" It's an example. We have not told a lie.

Answer 3

A day to God is but a thousand years. For in the DAY, you will die. Adam was 930, 70 years short of a 1000. Yes God kept his word, Adam died!!!

Answer 4

You like most people relate God's day to the length of man's day.
It is written that a day to the Lord is as 1000 Years.Had Adam lived past a thousand then you would have an argument.
That is why we were given six thousand years to organize society as we see fit and then Christ returns to usher in a 1000 year era of peace which is comparable to the sabbath(a day of rest) and then God the father returns to judge the wicked and reward the faithfull.
God is incapable of lies.

Answer 5

Oh ye of little faith how long will God put up with this, He really is all forgiving, God did not and is incapable of lying. Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden, not here on earth they were banished from there to live here on earth and they did die. If they would not have ate of the apple we would not have to perfect our souls here on earth before we can re-enter Eden or heaven or the other side as you choose to call it. It is still God's House. And years were calculated differently then they are today. It's ok to ask questions for your enlightenment but how dare you judge God.

Answer 6

there's more than one type of death.
Adam and Eve died spiritually on the day they ate.
Also, they began to age at the same time.

I recommend Miles Munroe's book Rediscovering the Kingdom to get better insight into the whole thing.

Spiritual death entails separation from God. They were disconnected so to speak. Because they listened to the animal that Satan possessed, they essentially handed over dominion and authority of the Earth and its inhabitants to Satan.

What I've stated is compliant with Catholic, Reformed, and Arminian church teaching.

Answer 7

On the day that Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, they did not die physically, but they DID die spiritually.
Man, being a three part being lost the deeply spiritual aspect of his life. (Adam and Eve used to be able to communicate with God whenever they wanted. That ended in the Garden.

To be born-again is to have that spiritual awareness restored to us.

Answer 8

He didn't specify when, just that they would. You're reading something in English that was translated from Hebrew. I'm sure you'll continue to ignore that fact and ask further questions that show your general lack of knowledge, but none of us will deny you that right.

If they hadn't eaten the fruit, they would have never died.

If you don't believe the Bible is the Word of God, how then can you claim that the words in it are His lies?

Answer 9

“In the day of thy eating thereof, die surely shalt thou.” The divine command is accompanied with its awful sanction - death. The man could not at this time have any practical knowledge of the physical dissolution called death. We must, therefore, suppose either that God made him preternaturally acquainted with it, or that he conveyed to him the knowledge of it simply as the negation of life. The latter hypothesis is to be preferred, for several reasons. First, it is the more economical mode of instruction. Such knowledge may be imparted to man without anticipating experience. He was already conscious of life as a pure blessing. He was therefore capable of forming an idea of its loss. And death in the physical sense of the cessation of animal life and the disorganization of the body, he would come to understand in due time by experience. Secondly, death in reference to man is regarded in Scripture much more as the privation of life in the sense of a state of favor with God and consequent happiness than as the mere cessation of animal life Gen_28:13; Exo_3:6; Mat_22:32. Thirdly, the presence and privilege of the tree of life would enable man to see how easily he could be deprived of life, especially when he began to drink in its life-sustaining juices and feel the flow of vitality rushing through his veins and refreshing his whole physical nature. Take away this tree, and with all the other resources of nature he cannot but eventually droop and die. Fourthly, the man would thus regard his exclusion from the tree of life as the earnest of the sentence which would come to its fullness, when the animal frame would at length sink down under the wear and tear of life like the beasts that perish. Then would ensue to the dead but perpetually existing soul of man the total privation of all the sweets of life, and the experience of all the ills of penal death."

God cannot and does not lie. They died spiritually that day, and began the process of physical death. Neither would have happened if they did not disobey God.

Answer 10

as i remember hearing it a day to god is a thousand years. adam only lived 930 years after he ate the fruit therefore he did die in the day he ate the fruit.

Answer 11

First, He did not lie. You are misinterpreting it. "The day" is meaning "when", not literally a day. Until then they did not know death and would live forever.

Second, you are thinking in our years. This was way before Cesar's calender. A year biblical is measured different. It could have been from full moon to full moon or seasons. The bible cannot be taken so literally and broken down to each detail.