JESUS' DEATH AND RESURRECTION What They Can Mean for You

Adam died because he disobeyed God

"To Adam [God] said:  'Because  you. . . .ate from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, . . .in the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." -Genesis 3:17, 19.

Adam ate from the tree that  was forbidden to  him.  That act of disobedience was not to be taken lightly. It was rebellion, a flagrant disregard for all the good that Jehovah had done for him.  By eating that fruit, Adam rejected Jehovah, choosing a course of independence, which would have  catastrophic consequences.

Just as Jehovah foretold Adam eventually died. God had formed Adam  "out of dust from the ground" and had told him that he would "return to the ground." Adam did not live on in another form or in another realm. At death he became as lifeless as the dust from which he had been formed. -Genesis 2:7; Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10. 

Next time: JESUS DEATH AND RESURRECTION What They Can Mean for You - We Die Because We Come from Adam

From the Watchtower magazine, 2015