• What is Man? Genesis 2:7
• Was Adam created mortal or immortal? 1 Timothy 6:16
• If Adam had not sinned, would he have ever died? Genesis 2:17; 3:2, 3.
• If he had lived forever, would you call that immortality?
• On account of sin he did die, and doesn't that prove that he wasn't immortal?
• Is there a difference between eternal life and immotality?
• Can a person live eternally and not be immortal? Rev. 21:4.
• If Adam could not go to heaven without dying and could not die without sinning, does that prove that sin and death are a blessing to the human family? Romans 6:23
• Did Adam lose an earthly or heavenly home? Genesis 3:17-19
• If Jesus came to restore what was lost by Adam's fall, what will be restored, paradise or something else?
• Was Adam a single indivdual or two individuals in one? Gen. 2:18.
• If composed of two parts, soul and body, which one was Adam?
• Which was the responsible part that could think, feel, decide, and act?
• Which part was it that sinned, soul or body?
• If it was the soul, why did the body have to suffer?
• If it was the body, why is it said that 'souls have to be saved' (since they did nothing wrong)?
• In Gen. 2:17, it says, "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." Which part of Adam did God talk to?
• What does the word 'thou' refer to in Gen. 3:17? "And unto Adam he said, 'because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying 'thou shalt not eat of it', cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.'"
• If you say it refers to the soul, then what does the same word 'thou' refer to in Gen. 3:19? "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat break till thou return unto the ground: for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou are and unto dust shalt thou return."
• How many different penalties were passed on Adam for his sin?
• Was was pronounced against the sould and a different one against the body?

--See Awake! September 8, 1968, pp. 3, 4.

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