Great points you made
@Strong in Him . I appreciate you taking the time to write your concerns.
If they had died physically, the text would have said so.
The text does say so. Did you not review the videos and links I provided? The fact-checks are easily verifiable.
God said the couple would die physically within twenty-four hours. To suggest otherwise is to call God a liar.
We must assume that what God said would happen, did in fact happen.
Why should God have to redundantly write
"...and the Man and the Woman died"? Are we that unfaithful and unbelieving?
Is it wise to be a Doubting Thomas?
It sounds as though you are saying that a man and his wife were created: they both died immediately they ate the fruit. A new man, called Adam was created/the original one was resurrected and a new woman called Eve was created/the original woman was resurrected. And this couple - Adam and Eve mark 2 - were the ones who were evicted from the garden, had Cain and Abel etc.
Bingo! That is precisely what Genesis 1-3 teaches when one does not alter the words 'day' and 'surely die'. I am not the one changing them.
This includes Genesis 2:4...
Genesis 2:4
"These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens."
Everyone changes the word 'day' in the above verse to 'six days' or 'back in the day' or
some other Gospel that God did not author. Yet, ironically, I am the bad guy here for *
not* changing them. I am being denied the literal interpretation. Who has the authority to do that?
But that doesn't make sense.
It makes perfect sense to those that have studied this for as many years as I and others have.
a) the man is called Adam in chapter 2 - before the fall.
For whatever reason, the name 'Adam' stayed consistent. I believe it has to do with a very profound teaching related to Jesus being the Last Adam...
1 Corinthians 15:45
"And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit."
Could it be that Jesus was the First Adam as well? Look...
Revelation 22:13
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."
First and last what? Some Scholars believe that Adam partook of the Forbidden Fruit as a sacrifice to save his Bride. Sound familiar?
If Jesus was the one who started the mess, then it would make sense for him to clean up the mess that he made and make everything right.
Perhaps that is too much common sense?
b) the text doesn't say anything about a man and a woman dying and then being resurrected.
Again, God said that Adam would die on that day...
Genesis 2:17
"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."
Literal day. Literal, physical death. There is no changing what God said. I have the verses to prove my case.
Moreover, when someone is sleeping, their eyes are
closed physically and literally. When they awaken from slumber, they
physically and literally open their eyes...
Genesis 3:7
"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."
If we look at the above verse in a literal sense, their eyes were physically closed and then physically opened. Yes, there can be a metaphorical meaning, but the literal meaning should not be ignored. We know what 'sleep' can mean in the Bible...
John 11:13
"Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep."
They partook and slept the sleep of death.
c) the Lord punished Adam and his wife and then drove them from the garden. Why would God have cursed them if they had died as soon as they ate the fruit? Why would he have resurrected them if they had died in their sin? If they had been resurrected as sinners, what was the point of their having died?
You are asking the right questions. The Adam and Eve lesson is *way* more meaningful than the 'nursery rhyme' watered down 'milk of the word' teachings the world is usually taught.
It all has to do with the Law and 'reaping what one has sown'. Most do not understand that the penalties can carry over to their next incarnation.
More importantly, it has to do with second chances.
So the woman physically died, was resurrected as Eve, (not mentioned in the text), banished from the garden then slept with Adam, her husband, and gave birth to Cain.
Yes, except it
is mentioned.
If the woman's physical death was punishment for sinning, why did God resurrect her, make her a garment to clothe her because she had been ashamed of her nakedness - and then drive her form the garden?
Would you rather God burn her for infinity?
The sin that Adam and Ishshah committed were *unpardonable*. They had to die the Second Death. This is the Law.
The lesson is that the Second Death is not as bad as the Church teaches. God is Love. God is Merciful. Everything works out in the end. It is quite beautiful really.
By the way...
The 'shame' came from the fact that the Woman now had reproductive organs that were not there before. Shame is our private parts.
If both man and woman had been raised from the dead by God, they could have stayed in the garden and eaten from the tree of life. They would have had their punishment - physical death.
The Tree of Life imparts immortality in a Glorified Body. It is a 'one shot deal'. The First Adam and the Woman were 'naked' because they were not clothed with a Tabernacle Body yet. That is what the purpose of the trees were for. They are designed to clothe the Soul + Spirit.
- Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil: Clothes one with a mortal body of corruption.
- Tree of Life: Clothes one with an immortal Glorified Body.
The couple chose option #1. God clothed them with the Body they requested and made a Covenant with...
Job 10:11
"Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews."
The couple were no longer eligible to partake of the Tree of Life because, due to their sin, death and forgiveness is now required before eating.
If they had not sinned, they could have partaken without having to die a physical death first.
Eve was her name - given after the fall.
And if you are saying that they were different women, then there was no resurrection. If there had been, it would have been the same woman brought back from the dead.
Read about Elijah raising a boy to life; or Jesus raising Jairus' daughter and Lazarus. In each case, it was the same person brought back to life.
Very clever. I appreciate your high-level critical thinking skills.
If the couple were brough back to life similar to Lazarus, etc., then there would be no need to change Ishshah's name to Eve.
We know it was more than just a simple 'revival' because everyone involved (including the Serpent) now have different anatomical and biological features. In other words, their very DNA was altered to the point they became something new and different. They became a 'new creature' if you will.
The Serpent was changed into the 'Seed of the Serpent' which is what we now call 'Sperm'...
Genesis 3:14
"And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life."
The above is literally describing Reincarnation. The Serpent was in one form, then he was resurrected into another, very different form. Christians are so blind that they do not even see how the Bible teaches reincarnation right in front of their faces. The so called 'snake' is the Milk of the Word interpretation.
"Ooooh, look out for the scary snake!" That is a Children's tale version.
The Serpent, in the form of Male Seed, was then placed into the loins of Man. All Males have the Seed of the Serpent in their loins.
As for the Woman, she now has something called 'conception' added to her biology. Adam now has the Seed of the Serpent in his loins as I mentioned. When Adam placed this Seed into Eve, she begat Cain, the first reincarnation of the Serpent. Satan was a 'murderer from the beginning'. It is literal.
Everyone was reincarnated. That is what the story is teaching. No one sees it except a rare few. Folks would rather teach 'another Gospel' that God 'torments and burns everyone for infinity'... in addition to telling lies.
As with Jesus himself - he gave the disciples many proofs that HE, Jesus, was alive again. He wasn't a different man.
He
was a different man. He literally came back in a different body. People did not recognize him...
John 20:15
"Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away."
John 21:4
"But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus."
Luke 24:15-16
"And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were holden that they should not know him."
And of course...
John 20:27-28
"Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God."
The infamous 'Doubting Thomas'.