I AM

I AM : M. M. Ninan
Did Adam die in that day? In fact, death came the instant Adam
disobeyed. Decay and death started with disobedience. The fact
that Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden of Eden and
were kept from entering it was only the great mercy of God.
A sinful person with a decaying body will be living in death if
dissolution did not come and release man from this body.
"He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree
of life and eat, and live forever."
Gen 3:23-24 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to
work the ground from which he had been taken." After he drove the man
out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a
flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
There is an interesting story of a situation when the god of death
went on strike in Hindu mythology. People were getting old and
feeble. But death would not come.
To live in decay even under
regeneration that continues to
decay will be a life of pain,
suffering and misery. The
situation is one that we face even
today. We could prolong the life to
a great extent with medicines. But does that help in alleviation of
suffering? It brings back to memory the science fiction that I have
read where an elixir of immortality was discovered. Elixir of
immortality is not a solution to the dissolving decaying world. It
will only aggravate the situation. Was it mercy or punishment that
God drove Adam and Eve out of Eden?
God in his mercy provided
death for Man.
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