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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
Agree with the part addressed to awareness!
As to the poison, those are my words. Something got into man as evidenced by eating the fruit. Whatever got into mankind, and his genes, caused death. (and I know we talked about this in another place, but obviously I didn't get any light that changed my thinking . . .) If not poison, what would you call that which got into mankind and caused death?
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What Ohio said.
The Bible never says death is caused by something that got into us. It is crystal clear that death is wages.
The wages of sin is death. Death is wages. Death is our wages, what we
earned, for our sin. Death is our punishment. This is why God cut them off from the tree of life -- that was their punishment, so they would die (by not being able to eat the tree that allowed them to live forever).
Death is punishment, over and over again. It's not death due to poison, but punishment.
Sin is in us, but from the act of disobedience, not from the fruit. Since we sinned, we were punished by God with the death penalty. The wages of sin is death.