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Originally Posted by bearbear
God told Adam and Eve that if they ate of the fruit of tree of knowledge of good and evil that they would surely die. We all know that after they ate of that tree they didn't drop dead but Adam continued as a living being in the flesh, perhaps because God was referring to another kind of death that mattered more, a spiritual death - the death of Adam and Eve's spirit.
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Here is how I have long understood this verse ...
God told Adam, "for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." We know that one day to God is as a thousand years, and this explains, at least to me, why no man has lived longer than "one day," which is a thousand years. In this way, Adam died on the same day he ate of that tree.