Why Do We Grow Old and Die? - WHY ADAM AND EVE DIED

To understand why Adam and Eve died, we need to examine a conversation that had far reaching effects. Satan the Devil use a serpent to  convey a malicious lie.  The Bible account says: "Now the serpent was the most cautious of all the wild animals of the field that Jehovah God had made. So it said to the woman; 'Did God really say that you must not eat from every tree of the garden?'" - GENESIS 3:1.

To that Eve replied:  "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden.  But God has  about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden: "You must not eat from it, no, you  must  not touch it; otherwise  you will die."'  Next the serpent said to her:  "You certainly will not die.  For God knows that in the very day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good and bad." Thus, Satan asserted that Jehovah was a liar who was holding back something good from our first parents. -GENESIS 3:2-5.

Eve believed what she heard.  She gazed at the tree. It looked so pleasing, so desirable. She reached out and took some of the fruit, and began to eat it.  Then the Bible says: "Afterward. she also gave some to her husband when he was with her, and began eating it." -  GENESIS 3"6.

How it must have saddened God to see that his beloved children had willfully disobeyed him! What did he do?  To Adam, Jehovah said: "You will . . . 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) As it turned out,  "all the days of Adam's life amounted to 930 years, and then he  died." (Genesis 5:5) Adam did not go to heaven or pass on to to some spirit realm.  He had no existence before Jehovah created him from the dust of the ground.  So when he died, he became as lifeless as the dust from which he was created. He ceased to exist. How tragic!

Next time: Why Do We Grow Old and Die? PERFECTION IS NOT OURS

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