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I am saying Adam and Eve were created flesh, not spirit (to use a Biblical category).

The easiest way I can explain my view is to say Adam was created a living soul, created man, like us.

To help me understand your view, are you saying Adam was created spirit and then died spiritually?

 

Scripture uses a double (everywhere else Scripture does this we interpret it as an emphatic). If we interpret the passage as we do throughout the Bible then the verse is saying that on the day Adam eats of the fruit death would be a certainty. An alternate interpretation is that death would begin (dying you shall die), but I think this a forced interpretation.

In the KJV the verse also does not indicate that death would occur 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.)

Why do you change the verse to read "you shall die on that day"?

This is how the warning manifested itself when Adam sinned (per God):

Genesis 3:17–19 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;

Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.
18 “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;
19 By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

 

How is me saying '1 Corinthians 15:45 So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit." saying Adam was NOT made a living soul?

No, that is not what I am saying at all.

I am saying when God created Adam He created Him flesh and blood (flesh and blood will not inherit the Kingdom of God) and God created Adam a living soul.

 

Yes, the Devil is a liar. He told Adam he wouldn't die if he ate the fruit. God told Adam he would return to dust. Satan lied to Adam.

 

To prevent hijacking this thread (although inevitable given the topic) I've started another to discuss why done add a doctrine of loosing spiritual life.

Did Adam die spiritually when he sinned?

 

I do not understand the difficulty. If you can elaborate I'll try to clarify.

To help, I did start a thread about this topic.

And to summarize, I do no believe the biblical text explaining what occurred when Adam sinned is lacking. I believe the account of God's words to Adam are accurate and complete. Adam would have to work the land and would return to the dust from which he was created.

 

I had my roof replaced a few months ago. Still finding pieces of shingles in the yard.