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1 | Did God Create Man Mortal? | Gen 1:26 | kalos | 10102 | ||
Man not created mortal. "...death was not originally built into human constitution. People were created for life, not for death." The Origin of Death. Unlike the ancient Mesopotamian concept, death was not originally built into human constitution. People were created for life, not for death. They had access to both the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. They were told they would certainly die if they ate from the latter (Gen 2:17). Humankind was not tricked out of eternal life as in the Adapa myth, nor was it stolen from them as in the Gilgamesh epic. They partook of the forbidden tree with full awareness of the consequences. Apparently from close observation of the plant and animal kingdom they would have been able to know what death was. Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology . Edited by Walter A. Elwell, 1996, Baker Books. (http://bible.crosswalk.com/Dictionaries/BakersEvangelicalDictionary/bed.cgi) |
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2 | Did God Create Man Mortal? | Gen 1:26 | Lionstrong | 10244 | ||
Hello JV, I would agree with this to mean death of the whole man, body and soul, but some members of the forum would still only see this as appliying only to spiritual death. ............ In addition, as I have stated before, I disagree with this notion that Adam knew the meaning of death only by experience. Adam was created with language, and therefore understood the command of God and His threatened consequece for disobedience --apart from experience -- (Gen. 2:16,17). Was there sufficent time between creation and the command for Adam to experience the death of plant or animal? |
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