ADAM WAS CREATED MORTAL

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Was He Created Immortal?

Nowhere in the bible that says, Adam was created immortal, nor he was created mortal, and yet, the common belief Adam was immortal before his fall into sin. However, there are plethora of Scriptures implicitly suggest that Adam in his physical nature is subject to death. First of all, he has not taken the fruit of the tree of life yet, that will make him live forever. He was, then, subject to die and to return to dust where he came. To start with, let’s investigate Adam in its physical aspect.

Adam was created from the dust of the ground‒‒material, subject to deteriorate through the process of time. Out of the ground he was taken that he needs food that comes from the ground to nourish and replenish the old and decaying cells of his body. Certain amount of the old and decaying cells remain in the body that such accumulation causes the aging process and eventual death. By the way, the finger nails you have now is not the finger nails you had a year ago; and so with your hair. The body cells keep on changing with the new ones that comes from the food that we eat [what you eat is what you are‒‒is the old adage]. According to the doctor our body is not the same body we have five years ago; this is speaking of the body cells that keep on replenishing the old ones that comes from the food we eat. This is what God designed when he created man as a physical being.
I remember the DVD documentary of the ten lost tribes of Israel. Their religious leader said, “Through the generations your body changes, but your spirits never change, you are still Jew in the inside.”
Before Adam fell into sin God instructed him what to eat to maintain a healthy long life.
“Then God said, ‘I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground–‒everything that has the breath of life in it–‒I give every green plant for food’ And it was so” (Genesis 1:29-30).

Scientifically, man in his physical existence regardless of sin is subject to deteriorate and in the process of dying. In this respect man and animals have the same fate when God said, “…everything that has the breath of life in it” and so with Ecclesiastes 3:19-20.

“Man’s fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.”

Animal has to eat to continue to live; so with man for there is no difference on the physical aspect of both. They are not immortal.

Continuing in the spiritual aspect of man:
The Scripture below numbering to four affirmations, witnesses to the fact that man is created
mortal. Not a single verse in the Bible exist that can contradict the following verses, because the
Bible does not contradict itself.

(1) The Scriptures tell us, “The first man, Adam, became a living person.” But the last Adam—that is, Christ—is a life-giving Spirit. 46 What comes first is the natural body, then the spiritual body comes later” (1 Cor. 15:45-46).

(2) "It is sown [first] a NATURAL BODY [a physical body which dies]; it is raised [afterward] a SPIRITUAL BODY [which is made immortal and never dies]…" (I Cor. 15:44)

(3) "Who shall change our [first] VILE BODY, that it may be fashioned like unto His [afterward] GLORIOUS BODY…" (Phil. 3:21).

(4) "If I have told you EARTHLY things [first], and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of HEAVENLY [spiritual] things [afterward]?" (John 3:12).

We cannot disconnect earthly things with spiritual; the sequence of God’s plan of salvation for mankind is most important, first is the physical and then comes the spiritual. The death pronounced by God to Adam upon eating the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the statement of fact: “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it where you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return” (Genesis 3:19). Regardless of sin, Adam was taken from the ground, and therefore to the ground he will return.

Parallelism of physical and spiritual facts:
Fact #1: Adam did not die physically after eating the forbidden fruit. But God is true to his word.
Fact #2: In that very day Adam and Eve died the spiritual death.

We can add nothing to those facts by saying the body begun the process of dying upon eating the forbidden fruit. The Bible has no mentioned that the body begun the process of dying because of sin. The Bible is clear in this verse, “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” (Genesis 2:17). If “surely die” referred to the physical, Adam is physically dead that very day˗˗˗not in the process of dying. I formerly believed that bacteria of some kind started working in the body of Adam which is the process of dying because of sin. I found out such belief of mine is aberrant to the Scripture; it’s just a product of man’s wisdom˗˗˗non-scriptural.

God is the source of all the blessings and life to enjoy. To be separated from Him is to be cut off from all the blessings and attaining abundance and quality life that would tantamount to spiritual death. Thus, Adam and Eve died the same day they ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Spiritual death is separation from God. They lost their fellowship with God together with the blessings which they enjoy. #