opportunity to prove otherwise. Man failed. Back to the garden, if God is righteous, and he is, can he lie? No! Well, then let's revisit Genesis 2:17, "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.". God said that they would die the same day that they ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Genesis 5:5 tells us that Adam was 930 years old when he died. Adam did not die a physical, bodily, death on the day that he ate the fruit. Satan knew that he wouldn't, and this was part of the deception. What then? What part of the three part man died? God can't lie! We have seen the answer in I Thessalonians 5:19, the Spirit was quenched, as one would quench a candle's flame. Some would say that man's physical body was incorruptible before the fall. If this is so, why did God include the tree of life in the garden of Eden and not place any condition on its use? Genesis 3:22 through 24 shows us that God took back the gift of the tree of life when he drove man from the garden of Eden. I see no scriptural evidence that any man to this date has eaten of the tree of life. To say otherwise, unless you can produce scripture to support it is to add to and to take away from God's word. Man has always had a corruptible physical body. With the spirit quenched, man has now been reduced to two parts, that of body and soul. We now have the dichotomous state of man. Man at the urging of Satan has defiled God's handiwork. When did this happen? Who can tell? However, God's description of days were always in the order of the evening and the morning were the sixth day. The last reference to days before the fall was to the seventh day in which God rested. In Genesis 3:8 immediately after the fall we read, "And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day :...". The cool of the day is generally accepted as being the evening, which could be the start of the eighth day. Genesis 3:22-24 says, "And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and 13 _______________________________________________________________________________ take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; 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.". 14 __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ |
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