Jehovah tells Adam & Eve that they are not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of good & evil. If they do, Jehovah tells them "for IN THE DAY that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
The serpent tells Eve "Ye shall not surely die. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."
As soon as Adam & Eve ate from the tree we are told that their eyes were opened. Jehovah says "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil"
So, in the day that Adam & Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge, they did NOT die, their eyes were opened, and they had become as gods, knowing good and evil.
The passage states "in the day" they shall surely die, not that the process of death would start.
Jehovah banishes Adam & Eve from the garden, not because of original sin, but because he did not want them to eat from the Tree of Life and live forever. Suggesting that they were already in a state of dying.
2007-01-21 09:13:53 · 27 answers · asked by Wisdom in Faith 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Apparently some of the inerrant, God inspired Bibles have been changed to hide these facts. All of the verses I quoted were from the King James Version.
2007-01-21 10:29:46 · update #1
If the story is figurative, then which is more likely? Either the author 'forgot' what he had written in the previous sentence, or he meant that Adam would become mortal after choosing to sin.
Of course, if the story literally happened, then you guess the implications of that.
2007-01-21 09:20:59 · answer #1 · answered by NONAME 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The serpent lied. Adam and Eve did die. They certainly are not alive.
The serpent lied. Adam and Eve did die in the day they ate. The term "day" is not restricted in the Bible to a twenty-four hour period. It can be as long as one thousand years, even as the Bible says. Adam and Eve both died before they reached a thousand years of age. They died in the day that ate.
The serpent lied. Genesis 3:5 in the NIV describes the serpent telling them they would be like God in knowing good and evil (not that they would become gods). The tree represented the right to determine for themselves what was good and bad - what was acceptable and unacceptable behavior.
Jehovah banished them from the Garden of Eden because they no longer had a right to live there. They had removed themselves from God's blessings - they had no right to life in paradise. He evicted them just as a landlord evicts a tenant who refuses to live according to the standards of the landlord.
The serpent lied. Jehovah never lies.
Hannah J Paul
2007-01-21 09:25:03 · answer #2 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 2: 6 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 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."
It doesn't say ON that day. It says when you eat of it you will die. Adam and Eve did die.
2007-01-21 09:27:29 · answer #3 · answered by Jeanmarie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The whole process, to me, implies that once you have opened your eyes with knowledge you know good and evil.
Once you know good and evil, you then know the evil that you are doing.
With good and evil comes choice. To continue on one's original path or change it. With knowledge comes responsibility.
We are all living original sin as we are taught by our parents (forefathers) how to live our life. If we do not re-assess those teaching we will continue to be just as good or bad as they were.
God, as a parent, told his children not to do something. He gave them the only reasoning they needed being in the garden. They had nothing that was not provided. When they opened their eyes they saw things they thought were missing when in fact everything they NEEDED was still there. Nothing had changed.
Spiritually the people they were died. The snake was right they didn't die physically.
They also had not followed the rules and should be punished accordingly.
Genesis 3:22 And the Lord God said, Behold,the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, LEST HE PUT FORTH HIS HAND, and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live for ever:
To me this means "Now that you know, you must do the work also."
My question for you is "When did god say they would live forever?" They were already on the way to death as any other living creature would be. they just didn't know it yet. :)
2007-01-21 09:53:59 · answer #4 · answered by Eric E 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It wasn't a literal 24 hour day in which Adam died but a period of time. 2 Peter 3:8 says God considers a day a thousand years long. Adam lived for 930 years until his sinful body wore out, then died. Also was the fact that once he and his wife sinned, they were already considered dead in God's eyes and cut off from his family, so Satan speaking through the serpent lied, God never did and never does.
2007-01-21 09:22:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Satan the Devil.
The word "devil" means someone who tells wicked lies about another person. "Satan" means an enemy or an opposer. These are terms given to God's chief enemy. At first, he was a perfect angel in heaven with God. However, he later thought too much of himself and wanted the worship that rightly belongs to God.—Matthew 4:8-10.
This angel, Satan, spoke to Eve by means of a snake. By telling her lies, he got her to disobey God. Satan thus attacked what is called God's "sovereignty," or position as the Most High. Satan questioned whether God rules in a worthy way and in the best interests of His subjects. Satan also brought into question whether any human would remain loyal to God. By doing this, Satan made himself God's enemy. That is why he came to be called Satan the Devil.—Genesis 3:1-5; Job 1:8-11; Revelation 12:9.
2007-01-22 05:08:47 · answer #6 · answered by Zoila 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That day, they officially disobeyed God, thus entering in an era of human sin, and died spiritually by aquiring the knowledge of good and evil (what we call, a conscience)
Anyone would obvioiusly take this story with symbolic purpose, and the act of 'dying' is a symbolic theme in the story of Adam and Eve.
And the serpent only lied when he said, "you will not die", the rest was a means of temptation.
Today, Satan tempts men just the same way to decieve them into hell, because he hates God, and thus hates God's creation in his own image.
2007-01-21 09:20:15 · answer #7 · answered by Doug 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Your prognosis of the passage of scripture misses out on the undeniable fact that the devil reported, "Ye shall no longer rather die." This grow to be, in actuality, a lie; Adam and Eve are ineffective. element of the serpent's words have been common, we would be as "gods." yet shall we include that for a 2nd: in what way are we adore "gods?" can we create rely from no longer something? can we command the climate of nature to obey us? can we kow all issues or be everywhere at as quickly as? the obtrusive answer is not any, so in what experience then are they authentic? God makes His own regulations for guy to abide by way of, yet guy now makes his own regulations as though he have been his own sovereign. Worse yet, having experienced the "freedom" which comes with the skill to dedicate evil, guy now thinks he has the remarkable to return to a determination no rely if or no longer something is evil, for this reason all of our many issues. You perceptively detect the undeniable fact that Eve is termed the "mom of all living" somewhat than God being the daddy. that's because of the fact mankind is now born with the propensity in the direction of evil and does no longer have the features he ought to have if God have been his father. it is exactly what the recent start in Christ seems after: we are born into the family of God and out of the family of guy that's doomed. finally, had Adam and Eve no longer disobeyed, the human race might nevertheless have persevered considering, you will remember, that the commandment to be fruitful and multiply grow to be issued until eventually now the autumn; for this reason they might have raised righteous, sinless little ones, which grow to be God's will - to fill the earth with in basic terms like the distinction of God. desire this facilitates! Tom
2016-10-07 12:34:16 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This story makes absolutely no sense to the agriculturalist civilization of which we are all a part. From our standpoint, God should have been sitting there going,. "Well hurry it up, Man! Don't you want to be smart?!"
Only from a hunter-gatherer story can this story be understood.
Look up a novel called Ishmael. It's a poorly veiled alegorical moral story about a guy who learns about humanity through the eyes of an intelligent ape. If you can look past the hideous literary style... it's eye opening.
2007-01-21 09:18:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
the devil lied. Jehovah can not lie. they did not die right away because they had to have children, but they did die in Jehovah's eyes. Jesus Christ said the the devil is the Father of the lie. john 8 verse 44. numbers 23 verse 19 God is not a man the he should tell lies, Neither a son of mankind that he should feel regret and has he spoken and will he not carry it out. also Hebrews six verse 18 it is impossible for God to lie
2007-01-21 09:17:46 · answer #10 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋