Sarah Kanary wrote:
> "David Glenn Misner" 
wrote in message
> news:crepf8$jfv$1{at}nikalinux.nikaconsulting.net...
> >
> >
> >>If Adam had died in the day he ate the fruit, his death would
> >>have ended that plan for mankind. The consequences
> >>qwebster2 mentions may be in lieu of Adam's sudden
> >>demise. That His plan might succeed, perhaps the Creator
> >>allowed Himself the right to change details as needs warrant,
> >>the right to change His mind. Now, if you find such a concept
> >>disturbing, would you please explain why?
> >
> > I can't believe this topic has gone on for this long.  I believe
that
> > somebody said that Adam's death was a spiritual death.  When God
said
> > that whomever ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
> > would surely die on that day He did not say what kind of death it
> > would be did He?
> >
> >
> > I believe that the Bible talks about a death that is simply a
> > separation from God.  Remember until that time Adam and Eve could
> > freely commune with God and after that time they could not.  Is
that
> > not indeed a death?
>
> Adam did, indeed die spiritually that literal day.  However, the
account
> spoke of the fact that Adam was dust and would return to dust.  This
speaks
> of literal death, not just spiritual.  So how did his literal death
occur
> within a 'day'?
>
> The Bible also says that "one day with the Lord is "as a thousand
years, and
> a thousand years as one day."  (2 Pet 3:8)
>
> Adam lived to age 930, thus dying within one of God's days.
Methuselah
> lived the longest of any man, dying at age 969.  Still within the
'day'.

You're only taking half of the verse literally and tossing the other
half. In your interpretation, it also means that Methuselah lived the
equivalent 969,000 years from God's point-of-view. Maybe it means that
short times and long times as we measure them are irrelevent to God.
Zach

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