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What did God say to Adam
Gen 2:17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.” Did Adam die that day, NO. Was Adam separated from God that day, YES. Sin puts a wall between man and God. I trust what the bible says.

Why then did God prohibit man from eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, with the threat that, as soon as he ate thereof, he would surely die?...Are we to regard the tree as poisonous, and suppose that some fatal property resided in the fruit?...Even in the case of the tree of life, the power is not to be sought in the physical character of the fruit....Life is not rooted in man's corporeal nature; it was in his spiritual nature that it had its origin, and from this it derives its stability and permanence also....The power which transforms corporeality into immortality is spiritual in its nature, and could only be imparted to the earthly tree or its fruit through the word of God, through a special operation of the Spirit of God, an operation which we can only picture to ourselves as sacramental in its character, rendering earthly elements the receptacles and vehicles of celestial powers. God had given such a sacramental nature and significance to the two trees in the midst of the garden,
The tree of knowledge was to lead man to the knowledge of good and evil...But as he failed to keep this divinely appointed way, and ate the forbidden fruit in opposition to the command of God, the power imparted by God to the fruit was manifested in a different way. He learned the difference between good and evil from his own guilty experience, and by receiving the evil into his own soul, fell a victim to the threatened death. Thus through his own fault the tree, which should have helped him to attain true freedom, brought nothing but the sham liberty of sin, and with it death, Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament

 

Question, did Adam die the day he ate the fruit? If he died that day then in what way did he die, physically or spiritually? It can only be one or the other.

FYI I base my theology on the whole bible. I see sin causes separation, spiritual death in the NT so I see no reason to think that it would not do the same in the OT.

 

The discussion has been useful overall, food for thought, but continuing to use the language “spiritual death” instead of being “alienated from God,” the reverse being “reconciled to God,” seems to be a sticking point. Perhaps there needs to be discussion based on that phrasing instead.

 

I didn't say that, in fact, I already addressed that here:

If you continue to read Genesis through a Theological lense, I will continue to tell you you are mistaken for doing so.

True or not.....Genesis says nothing about that.
Genesis is not concerned with "Spiritual death" it is concerned with physical death.
Let the narrative shape your reading of the text in lieu of letting your Theological assumptions shape your reading of the narrative.

 

All of this has been addressed in previous posts.
I don't know where the question:
"Do you actually believe that God has changed"? came from; or what was in your head when you asked it. No one believes that methinks.

 

Remember, In his spiritual seperation he knew he was naked. They’re for all to see. What did God do to cover his nakedness?

 

I never heard of this from anyone or any church I have been until I heard it here.

Sorry Bro. I disagree with you completely