For anyone interested, here's an article on the Hebrew of the phrase "you shall surely die" (or, idiomatically, "dying you shall die"). Their conclusion, in looking at numerous other cases in the OT where similar variations of the phrase are used, is that the phrase points to a matter of judicial punishment, rather than natural consequence.
In other words, the phrase itself supports the thought that in the garden of Eden, death is not shown to be the natural consequence of eating a poisoned tree, but is shown to be God's punishment for sin, for law-breaking, by losing access to the TOL.
https://www.ministrymagazine.org/arc...-you-shall-die
Trapped
P.S. Ironically, no, this is not the "ministry magazine" of LSM.