Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
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When God created everything, He saw that it was all good (Gen. 1:31).
• On the sixth day of creation, God created a "garden in the East" and placed Adam and
Eve there to care for it (Gen 2:8, for more this see "Does Genesis 1 Contradict Genesis
2?")
• God instructed Adam to eat from any tree but the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, "for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die" (Gen. 2:17)
You'll note that nothing in the Genesis account states that there was no death at all, it only
implies that Adam would not die unless he disobeyed God's command.
However, many people believe there was no death at all before Adam. They base their
argument mainly on two passages in the book of Romans. Paul, in writing his epistle t the
Roman, laid out our need for a savior and the glorious hope we have in Christ. In Romans 5:
12 he writes "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through
sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned". Paul here shows that Adam's actions
reached beyond himself and Eve; his sin caused death for all men.
Later, in Romans 8, Paul explains that Adam's sin also had consequences for the rest of God's
creation. Starting in verse 21 we read "the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to
corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole
creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but we
ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting
eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body" (Rom. 8:21-23). So, because
Romans says death entered through sin and there was no sin until Adam and Eve sinned in
the garden, it is believed that there was no death.
1. What Type of Death?
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