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I agree they didn't need the tree but I'm not sure whether you are also saying they had eternal life? Do you think Adam had eternal life prior to the fall?
Many, including myself believe that it was Jesus who appeared in the flesh to Abraham and told him that Sarah would bear a child. Many also believe it was Jesus who wrestled with Jacob and who appeared in the fire with Meshach, Shadrach, and Abednego. In every case where man saw God in the flesh it was Jesus. No one has seen The Father and no one has ascended except He who has descended, the Son of man.
Eternal life is just what it says, the person never dies. Before the fall Adam & Eve never would’ve died because death was not unleashed upon man. Romans 5 thru one sin death entered into the world and came to all men because all had sinned. (Paraphrasing). Before the fall there was no such thing as death.
I don’t see what this has to do with what I said in that post. Do you think Adam would’ve died if he hadn’t sinned?
The Trinity consists of three different personalities which are all God. Jesus didn’t pray to His own Spirit in the garden of Gethsemane saying “take this cup of suffering from My lips”. He was praying to a different person of the Trinity, The Father.
We will not only be living in Spirit but will have actual physical bodies that will not die. We will eat and drink.
Do you think that Adam was physically going to die if he had never sinned?
Adam differed from us because Adam believed from the very beginning of his creation which is why he was spiritually alive. We on the other hand are born spiritually dead having no knowledge of God. A person can’t be spiritually alive without believing in God and no one is born a believer.
Right so the death that is being referred to is a physical death not a spiritual death because we are born spiritually dead. We are not spiritually alive until we come to Christ. So sin cannot bring about our spiritual death if we were never spiritually alive to begin with. “Death came to all men because all sinned”. So the death referred to in Romans 5 cannot be referring to a spiritual death because we were all spiritually dead to begin with. The death that’s being referred to in Romans 5 is a physical death because we were spiritually dead but physically alive. Would you say that an unbeliever who hadn’t sinned yet is spiritually alive? A newborn perhaps?
