Adam and Eve ate and they lived lives like ours, is God implying we aren't alive? Or did he lie to Adam and Eve? 'Cause I swear, he didn't say "eat and become mortal".
2007-12-23 09:45:11 · 11 answers · asked by 666 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
he didnt give a date.
2007-12-23 09:56:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Adam and Eve, were created they were to live forever in the garden communicating with God, face to face. When they ate of the apple they sinned, and the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Adam and Eve did not immediately die, but they eventually did, due to their sin, and we do too.
2007-12-23 18:00:03 · answer #2 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evidently Adam and Eve were meant to live forever and would have if they hadn't eaten the forbidden fruit. You'll notice that they didn't have children until after they were expelled from Eden--if no one died, the earth would be VERY overcrowded! So although they didn't die immediately, they did eventually, as they apparently wouldn't have otherwise. Analogy: we know that cigarettes can kill us, but because the first puff doesn't do it, people go on smoking.
2007-12-23 17:54:57 · answer #3 · answered by aida 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Weird, I thought that was the FSM who said that.
Anyway, you are right that it does not mean become mortals, because in the next scene we have God running around the other Gods and worrying about what might happen if they eat from the tree of life and become immortal too.
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Somebody gave a thumb down. Obviously a person who has never bothered to read the book which they claim to believe.
2007-12-23 17:50:24 · answer #4 · answered by Buke 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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.
Gen 2:17 (KJV)
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.
2 Peter 3:8 (KJV)
Adam was told that in the day he ate of the forbidden fruit he would surely die, and as seen in 2 Peter, a thousand years to us is but a day to God.
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Gen 5:5 (KJV)
2007-12-23 17:53:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
They disobeyed God's command, and the command was not material, it was spiritual. You can't mix the material body with the willingness to reject what is right and wrong. That is spiritual. You have to choose "not to eat" because you were told not to. Go against what God wants, ie. Truth vs Lie, your soul dies along with your body.
2007-12-23 17:54:31 · answer #6 · answered by MMM 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it did actually mean "be mortal" -- beforehand, they were not going to die and now they were. It couldn't be "you will die now" because they didn't.
edit -- the hebrew "mot tamut" is not "mot yumat" which would indicate being subject to a death penalty at that time. Tamut is a distance in the future.
2007-12-23 17:49:07 · answer #7 · answered by rosends 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Beware of interpreting the word "eat" too literally.
It is very possible that "eat" is metaphorical, meaning "to consume" or "to swallow" or something along those lines.
2007-12-23 18:00:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Essentially he was calling it poison. You're right he didn't say they would become mortal. They were mortal to begin with that's why he didn't want them to become immortal after already becoming as smart as him.
2007-12-23 17:49:20 · answer #9 · answered by Jakero Evigh 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the exact hebrew translation is "you shall die the death", which means that once they sinned, they became spiritually dead. Their bodies became temples without the Holy Trinity living in them. It is through Christ's passion, death, and ressurection, that baptism fills the void of original sin by bringing the Holy Trinity to live in our bodies and souls!!!
2007-12-23 17:48:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋