What did God say would happen to Adam when he died?

Question

Genesis 3:19---Does this apply to everyone who dies?

To John Winston:
Adam became a living soul [Genesis 2:7 ]
Read eccl 3:19-20 to see what happens to both animals and people when they die--
"For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again."

Answer 1

“To Dust You Will Return”

When the first man, Adam, deliberately disobeyed God’s command, He said to him: “In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19) Where was Adam before Jehovah created him from the dust? Why, he was nowhere! He simply did not exist. So when Jehovah God said that Adam would “return to the ground,” he meant that Adam would die and return to the elements in the ground. Adam would not cross over to the spirit realm. At death Adam would once again be nonexistent. His punishment was death, absence of life, not a transfer to another realm. Romans 6:23.

Before God formed him from the dust of the ground and gave him life, Adam did not exist. When he died, he returned to that state. His punishment was death, not a transfer to another realm. What, then, happened to his soul? Since in the Bible the word “soul” often simply refers to a person, when we say that Adam died, we are saying that the soul named Adam died. This might sound unusual to a person who believes in the immortality of the soul. However, the Bible states: “The soul that is sinning, it itself will die.” (Ezekiel 18:4) Leviticus 21:1 speaks of “a deceased soul” (a “corpse,” The Jerusalem Bible). And Nazirites were told not to come near “any dead soul” (“a dead body,” Lamsa). Numbers 6:6.

What about others who have died? The condition of the dead is made clear at Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, where we read: “The dead know nothing, There is no pursuit, no plan, no knowledge or intelligence, within the grave.” (Moffatt) Death, therefore, is a state of nonexistence. The psalmist wrote that when a person dies, “his spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.” Psalm 146:4.

Clearly, the dead do not exist. They cannot know anything. They cannot see you, hear you, or talk to you. They can neither help you nor harm you.

Answer 2

Jehovah told Adam that in the day of his eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad he would die and return to the dust from which he came.Yes, we return to the dust. The Bible says that man is a living soul Genesis 2:7 The soul that is sinning, it itself will die. Ezekiel 18:4

Answer 3

yes it does cause after a while your body decays and becomes part of the ground... that is what he meant when he said that out of the dust you were formed and to the dust shalt tho return... he meant that his body would decay and turn back into dust....

Answer 4

Pick up an good science book and you will find that they confirm this scripture. Adam's body was made from the same elements as the earth. And on death, his body decomposed back to those same elements. Same for everyone who dies.

Answer 5

God never told anybody anything. Genesis is a terribly flawed, man-made piece of nonsense.

Answer 6

yes just his body

Answer 7

a person's body, yeah.