Genesis 2, 5 ~ The Day Adam Died
Unwilling to make a false argument which would release me from accountability, and knowing I surely was misunderstanding something about Paul’s statements in Romans, I headed back to Genesis only to find more light that would take me another step closer to the freedom I longed for. Again, I began reading the story of Adam and Eve…
The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die. Genesis 2:16-17
I looked up this word “die” in Hebrew. Do you know what it means? It means die. It is used nearly 700 times in the Old Testament. It is not used figuratively. This is the word used in those endless genealogies that record the age of a man at the time he dies. It is always referring to literal death, and it is this word God uses when He tells Adam he will die the day he eats from the forbidden tree. Indeed he did eat from it, but as God had said, did Adam die that day?
So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. Genesis 5:5
Obviously, Adam did not die that day. So, did God lie? I knew that He could not. (Titus 1:2, Hebrews 6:18) Therefore, if God, Who cannot lie, said, “in the day that you eat from it you will surely die”, then that day Adam died! Yet Genesis 5 says he went on to live 930 years. What could I conclude from this? Adam must not have been his body!
Adam’s physical body did not die that day. Adam did.
If Adam was not his body, then who was he? Adam was his spirit. It was obvious that there was a distinction between Adam and his body. I was beginning to see the connection. Paul had made this same distinction. Maybe that was why he was able to say, “…no longer am I the one doing it”.
Perhaps there was a part of me too that I was unaware of…an element in me that was distinct from my body. Maybe I needed to recognize this part of me. Actually, from what I had seen in Genesis, the truth was that this was not a part of me. It WAS me! This unseen, hidden man…this inner man was the real me. Like Adam, I was a spirit. At that point I had no idea how this one realization would change my life forever.
Don’t miss the P.S. (“post” script) here
and My Story continues here.…
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