Bible Error: Genesis 2:17

Bible Questions Answered:

“God said that adam would die if he ate the fruit, but they didn't die adam lived 930 years genesis 5:5...”

Nathan/ San Antonio, Texas U.S.A.

Bible Answer:

Bible Text:

Genesis 2:17 KJV

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.

Is the serpent the Truth teller?

Genesis 3:4,5 KJV

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5 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.

Absolutely not.

John 8:44 KJV
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in The Truth, because there is no Truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Revelation 12:9 KJV

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Well, what is The Truth.

The Truth is, the Word Of The Lord, mentions no less than 3 kinds of death.

1.) Physical Death:

John 11:11-14 KJV

11 These things said He: and after that He saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.

12 Then said His disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.

13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that He had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.

14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.

2.) Spiritual Death:

Genesis 3:6-8 NLT

6 The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.

7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.

8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard The Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from The Lord God among the trees.

Ezekiel 18:4,20 KJV

4 Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die..."

Romans 5:12 KJV

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Ephesians 2:1,2 KJV

1 And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Sin separates:

Genesis 3:8 KJV

And they heard the voice of The Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

Isaiah 59:2 KJV

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.

Jude 1:19 KJV

These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not The Spirit.

3.) The Second Death:

Revelation 20:10-15 KJV

10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are (Having been thrown in some 1,000 years before), and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

11 And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of Life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Adam's sin brought first and immediate, Spiritual Death, then some 930 years later, Physical Death.

Ezekiel 18:20 KJV

The soul that sinneth, it shall die..."

Ephesians 2:1 KJV (Spiritual Death)

“...dead in trespasses and sins;

As the father of all lies, the serpent, the devil, lied, The Lord alone is The Truth.

John 14:6 KJV

Jesus saith unto him, I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life: no man cometh unto

The Father, but by Me.

Was there hope for Adam and Eve, Yes!

In their human reasoning they.....

Genesis 3:7 KJV

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

But sadly, this was at best “self righteousness,” and nothing that would ever cover their sin.

The Lord had another idea.

Genesis 3:21 KJV

Unto Adam also and to his wife did The Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

The first person to kill an animal was The Lord, and He did it to clothe Adam and Eve, and to show them their confession of sin and animal sacrifice to The Lord, covered their sin.

Genesis 4:1-7 KJV (Adam and Eve's children knew this lesson, of confession and animal sacrifice, to The Lord, to cover sin.

1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from The Lord.

2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto The Lord.

4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And The Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

5 But unto Cain and to his offering He had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

6 And The Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door..."

Under the old Covenant sins were covered, through sacrifices of spotless animals (The type of Christ.)

But then came the day when God sent into this world His perfect, sinless Lamb, His own Son.

Matthew 1:21 KJV (The Angel Of The Lord, spoke to Joseph.)

And she shall bring forth A Son, and thou shalt call His name Jesus: for He shall save His people from their sins.

II Corinthians 5:21 NLT

For God (The Father) made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

Through The Blood of God's sinless Lamb, sins are forgiven, and cleansed, from those who confess and forsake them.

I John 1:9 KJV

If we confess our sins, He is Faithful and Just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Cain, thought he could design his own religion by his own ways and means, but he was wrong.

And many today, think they will not bow to Jesus Christ, nor confess to Him, but that too is the way of Cain.

Acts 4:12 KJV

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

John 3:16-21 KJV

16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17 For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.

18 He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of The Only Begotten Son Of God.

19 And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil.

20 For every one that doeth evil hateth The Light, neither cometh to The Light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

21 But he that doeth Truth cometh to The Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Dear Friend, Jesus, God's perfect, spotless sacrificial Lamb, today stands forth with a pardon, for you, do not refuse Him.

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