You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil you shall not eat, for in the day that eat of it you shall surely die. Genesis For us death is the norm. All of us understand that we will or day die; and even if death seems surreal to us now, the day is coming when it will seem quite concrete. It is hard to imagine a world the death of abraham there was no such thing as death.
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Death is an integral part of our world now. One transgression, the only one they could make, would not only be a mistake, it would change the world. My personal theory is that touching the Tree sbraham the Knowledge of Good and Evil released a means of genetic change. Something like a virus. It infected and changed Adam and Eve and through heredity impacts us all.
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Through some other means it also impacted the non-living part of the death of abraham environment. Now it would be far less cooperative. These changes were the direct result of sin. Evil was known because now it was part of the system. The original sin and set of consequences got it all started. This passage is not said to us as if it were something we could really avoid. The story of Adam and Eve is recorded primarily so that we can understand why we, otherwise eternal creatures, live in a system that includes death. We are sinners by birth. The Sermon on the Mount was not given to lay down a list of achievable standards. It is primarily given to convince people that they are sinners. He was a sinner. The result is death. Genetically we are doomed to die, because genetically we are sinners. Further, as sinners go here are doomed to experience ultimate death, spiritual death, exile from God; because that is the way God has made it.
His Law requires death.
No rebel will share in the good things that God has made for long. Why let the rest of us be born into a hopeless situation? One aspect of consequences of rebellion has been the aging process.
We start moving toward our ultimate physical death immediately. People born before Noah and then tailing off after Noah lived much longer lives. Personally I am not complaining.]
In it something is. Now all became clear to me, Many thanks for the information.