Saturday, September 29, 2007
Did Adam have an immortal soul
Did Adam Have Immortality? Was man created immortal in the very beginning? Notice Genesis 3:22. This is the story of our first parents. It reads: "And the Eternal God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil." This is after the man had disobeyed God, the Supreme Ruler.God had commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 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" (Gen. 2:16-17). The Man was mortal, or he would not have been able to die.Then along came the devil in the guise of a serpent. He beguiled the woman into reaching out and taking of the forbidden tree and in "effect stealing what was not hers. This was idolatry. It amounted to rebellion, disobedience and dishonoring her only parent. She then gave the fruit to her husband, and he ate it willingly and knowingly.Then God said: "... Man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life [that is, partake of immortal life], and eat, and live forever [lest he live forever!]: therefore the Eternal God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken." So God drove out the man from all access to immortality. "And he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life" (Gen. 3:22-24). Why? Lest man go back and gain eternal life.You can see very plainly from the account in Genesis that man had no immortality and no "immortal soul.
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