Concept of spiritual death and original sin

Hi,

There is no indication from scriptures that Adam and Eve knew what death was. God did not give them any examples of what death was. God did not say the tree of knowledge of good and evil was poisonous. So even though they knew not to eat the forbidden fruit, they did not know why not.

Eve repeats her understanding of God's warning to the talking serpent verbatim.

Genesis 3:2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, "You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.""

The talking serpent tells Eve God is lying and explains why.

Genesis 3:4 "You will not certainly die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

Now God did not warn Adam and Eve about the talking serpent or that they should avoid it also. So Eve explains why she decided to eat the fruit. She saw the fruit was good for food as she was also keen on gaining wisdom which were hardly evil or sinful motives.


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