Why, then, do we die? The Bible shows that one of God's creatures, later identified as the rebel Satan the Devil, tried to sabotage God's arrangements in Eden. How?
Satan induced our first parents, Adam and Eve to join him in the rebellion against God. When Satan claimed that God was withholding something good from them-the right to determine for themselves what is right and what is wrong-they went along with Satan and turned their backs on God. The result? In time, they died, just as God had warned. They lost the prospect of living forever in Paradise on earth. - GENESIS 2:17; 3:1-6; 5:5.
Adam and Eve's rebellion has affected all humans down to this day. God's Word says: "Through one man [Adam] sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men." (Romans 5:12) We die because we inherited sin and death from our original parents, not because of some predetermine some unfathomable 'plan' of God.
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