Reading the narrative of the fall
of man in the Garden of Eden ought to raise the question, “What did God mean
when he told man that in the day that he ate of the tree of knowledge of good
and evil, he would die”? Clearly, God was not speaking of physical death, for
Adam went on to live more than nine hundred years.
The relationship between the death
that came as a result of Adam’s sin and physical death are connected but
are not a one-to-one relationship. When we look at the description of death all
throughout the New Testament, it is a state of separation from God, which,
coincidentally is what happened when Adam sinned. The moment that Adam and Eve
sinned, they were cast out of the Garden of Eden, which represents the
immediate presence of God.
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