Hi sidelined,
ICANT writes:
Second can you prove this man lived 800 years after eating the fruit?
sidelined writes:
"I" cannot. However the Bible states this.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
You quoted Genesis 5:3, 4.
Gene 5:1 (KJV) This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Did you notice God called their name Adam? Mankind
This man(who the translators called Adam) was created in the likeness of God. Not formed from the dust of the ground.
The woman was created in the likeness of God. Not made from a rib from the man.
Gene 1:26 (KJV) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
This man and woman was never placed in a garden, so they never ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Gene 1:28 (KJV) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Why were they told to replenish the earth?
The earth must have had people before if they were to replenish it.
Now to the man and woman that was in the garden.
Have at her mate.
Gene 2:4 (KJV) These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth that is in Genesis 1:1.
Gene 1:1 (KJV) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Notice Genesis 2:4 says in the day.
The generations of Genesis 2:4 go until Genesis 4:26.
That means everything from Genesis 2:4 through Genesis 4:26 took place the same day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth.
Everybody screams that can't happen it took a long time for all those things to happen.
But since there was no night it was just one long day.
Night was made a very very very very long time (as you and I know time) after all these things took place.
Gene 2:7 (KJV) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
This man was formed of the dust of the ground.
God planted a garden and put the man he had formed (not created) in it.
Gene 2:16 (KJV) And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
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.
Since there was no way of marking time there is no telling how long the period from the forming of the man until God took the rib and made a woman was.
In the meantime God walked and talked with this man. God is Good, so this man knew what good was.
God gave this man a specific command with consequences.
He disobeyed a direct command.
He did not have to know if it was good to obey.
Nor did he have to know if it was bad to disobey.
All he had to do was to obey a direct command.
BTW that is how my children learned what was good and what was bad. If they disobeyed a direct command they were punished. Next time they knew the proper choice to make.
I think we get into trouble when we try to make this man just as we are today. This man was not created in the image and likeness of God. So we do not know what he was like. He may have been a lot more like the angels than we think.
I am not even sure he had freewill as we talk about it today.
I like to think he had freewill, but he may have been programed to do exactly what he did so God could get to the experiment He wanted to do.
That is to make man in His image and give him the choice to chose to believe in Him, worship Him, and serve Him, just because He is God.
Or to not believe in Him. But believe in all kinds of different things and Gods.
Now to the end of the day started in Genesis 1:1.
Gene 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Ever wonder why evening comes first?
It came first because the day the Lord God made the heaven and the earth had to come to a close.
If you look around in Genesis 1:2 you will not find the man that was formed from the dust of the ground in Genesis 2:4 and placed in the garden.
God's Word is true the man died the same day he ate the fruit.
Enjoy
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