if adam didn't sin would he be alive today?
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absolutely.  physical death is a result of spiritual death.  God said "in dying you will die" (literal translation) about eating of the fruit.  in dying spiritually, you will eventually die physcically.  in the words of morpheus, "the body cannot live without the mind"\nthis also applies to the spirit, which is the true man.  \n\nscience actually can't explain why a human dies of old age.  we have pretty much an entirely new body every 7 years.  death from getting old just doesn't make sense.
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Phil,\n\nJesus lived without sin, and so theoretically, it is possible, but no one else has ever done it. I don’t think you can do it either, but go for it! Let me know how it turns out. (Just kidding – we’re both out of the running because if you have to ask you weren’t able to do it either.)\n\nYou are in the “religion and spirituality” section and your question relates to Jesus, so I guess it’s fair to bring the Bible into the discussion. Paul is highly respected among Christians. As a young man, he persecuted Christians and even killed some. That puts him out of the running for the lifetime achievement award, but he certainly tried to make up for his indiscretion over the remainder of his life. Is it possible not to sin from this point onward? This is Paul’s conclusion:\n\nI do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do – this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. \n\nSo I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God-through Jesus Christ our Lord! \n\nSo then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. \n\nTherefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. \n\nThose who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. \n\nYou, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you. \n\nTherefore, brothers, we have an obligation-but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. Romans 7:15-8:14\n\nI’ll try to be brief, and if you have more questions, I will be happy to answer them. Paul’s conclusion is that he was not able to do the good things that he wanted to do nor was he able to stop doing the bad things that he hated. Twice he says, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit
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Adam and Eve were long before the law and were different from us in many ways. they did not have the law to tell them what sin was the bible teachs that without law there is no sin. however without law there was no growth to become more like God. So while Adam and Eve ate of the tree of Knowlege of good and evil it was there first transgression against God as that was disobedience to God all of this was an example of the law that was to come. Now understand that even though the transgression was a bad thing it had a good outcome as they did aqure knowlege and later would aquire the law and would be less like the animals and more like God. Now also understand that Adam and the people of that day lived well over nine hundred years therefore the weded children grandchildren and great grand children and so on could be fairly distant relatives. none the less whee there is no law there was no sin and those folks were not the same as you and I. Now God gave man the law not because man could live up to it but to show him that he could not. the bible teachs al have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and the wages of sin is death. but god knowing this provided a way for his people by coming to the world as a man and overcoming sin and dieing as an atonement for all who accepted it. each of these steps were a progression of man. the man befor the law the man under the law and the man who lives under grace. The next progression of man will be when he is granted a new perfected body. God is the same today yesterday and tommorow but mans realtionship wiht god changes and man himself changes.
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This is one of the main reasons that Christianity is difficult for me.. One must take the Adam and Eve story as a literally true event for original sin to be a valid doctrine.. If Adam and Eve are metaphorical, then  the death of Jesus was to no avail.
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He created Adam in his image, not us.  We are the results of hundreds of centuries of genetic variations.  If you study biology and human reproduction, you can see how He set this up so that we didn't end up all looking the same.
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I agree with your point of view.  The question is a legal one.  Adam lost life for us and a price had to be paid so that we could get life back.\n\nThe life of the perfect man Jesus was that price. \n\nNo God does not force us to accept the provision for life made possible by his sons death.  We have free will to accept it or reject it.\n\nNo I do not think they will be forced to have it but they will be forced to know the consequences of not having it at Armageddon.
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There are reasons why God could not save us from sin with a snap of His fingers.  His holy and just character would not allow it.  A payment had to rectify the transgressions committed.\n\nWhat He did though is offer a SOLUTION to the sin problem that  would also lead to eternal life.  The solution was Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son.\n\nCan man just do anything he wants and expect eternal life?  No.  Adam and Eve were given the opportunity to live forever and CHOSE to blow it.  THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES for blowing it, in every aspect of life.  Adam and Eve were no exeption, rather they were mankind's first examples to demonstrated that there are consequences for doing wrong.  Instead of being able to live forever, they would die.\n\nThe consequences to sin then is death.  So, what is the remedy?\n\nSomething had to remedy sin.  There is no darkness in God.  He is holy.  No man could ever see God and live.  He is too holy and full of pure light...beyond our scope of understanding.   Therefore, He had to make a way for us to be able to exist with Him forever in His magnificent glory, splendor, and light.  Sin is darkness and can not abide with light.\n\nIn Leviticus 17:11 God told the Israelites that the life of the body is in the blood. He gave them rules for pouring that blood on the altar. They had to do this in order to cover their sins. \n\nWithout the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins Hebrews tells us.  The blood represents life.  If a sacrifice were made, it would remedy the sin...wash the sin away...cleanse the sinner from the sin.  Why? Because God said so.\n\nIn the TNK, this was temporarily accomplished through animal sacrifices...spotless animals.  The reason for Jesus Christ coming in the flesh was so that he could be the final sacrifice.  He would literally give His life, so that all might live.  He was blameless, he did no sin, therefore he qualified as the "spotless Lamb" of God.  He gave His only begotten Son who was willing to die for the world.\n\nIn the offering the priests shed animal blood, but that blood only provided a cover for sin. Only the blood Christ shed was able to put sin away (Hebrews 9:26)! \n\nCouldn't God have died for us?  No.  God is not a man.  Only a flesh and blood sinless person could be the exchange.  His Son was what He gave, with His Son willlingly doing so.\n\nJesus GAVE his life freely out of love.  It was not "taken" from him.  His blood poured out to cover the sins of all who believe and wash them...freeing them from the bondage of sin.  All sin was imputed to him to reconcile the world to God.  Jesus Christ, through His sacrifice, put the world in a position to be "reconciled" in actuality to God.\n\nReconciliation removes the hatred (Romans 5:10; Colossians 1:21; Ephesians 2:16); reconciliation makes a person clean. Through reconciliation God paid for our sins and put them away (2 Corinthians 5:19; Hebrews 9:26; 1:3). Reconciliation breaks down the walls between God and man (Ephesians 2:14). At one time you and I were the enemies of God. By faith in Christ we brought ourselves back to God (Colossians 1:21). The war is over! God signed a peace treaty in the blood of Christ (Colossians 1:20)! \n\nAnyone, who believes God and His Son can be washed clean by the spilled blood of Christ.  God then, by His loving grace, declares a person "righteous" who has this kind of saving faith.\n\nJust as God raised Christ from the grave to a new body and immortality, so will He do the same for all who believe.  At the first resurrection, and at the last trump, Christ will return.  All in Christ (true Christians) will be changed instantly to an incorruptible, immortal body and person never to sin again and fit to dwell in the light of God.
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Something is really wrong with the heaven and hell teaching.\nAccording to Psalm 115:16, has God provided earth, or heaven for mankind?\nAccording to Psalm 37:29, where are we suppose to spend our eternity?\nReasoning:\nGod said Adam would lose the gift of life if he ate of the forbidden fruit.\nHe ate, he died.\nIF he never ate of it, if he never touched it ....where would he be today?\nOur future is on a cleansed earth.\nThat is what God's original purpose is .....and nothing will change his mind.
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I would ask Adam what it was like to actually walk and talk with God.I think it would be awesome to do that. I would hold no resentment towards him, for God knew all things concerning Adams Life when he created him.
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I'd like to add to your question.  The fact the Jesus (peace be upon him) was supposedly resurrected, doesn't that negate the fact that he died ??  I mean, if he's alive in Heaven, then he is not really dead for our sins.  I'm confused...
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If he didn't love sinners, why did he send Jesus to die for are sins?  For God so loved the world, ta ht he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16,17\n\nWe are all sinners, saved by grace
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At that time, there had been no sin.  It was not Lucifer's temptation that was a sin, but that he acted upon it.  God gave the angel's free will, and they could choose to follow Him or not.  Lucifer, who was one of God's Archangel's (Lucifer means most beautiful) thought he was equal to God.  It was his rebellion that went against God, and subsequently the act of sin began.  \nSimilarly, man has free will, and we can choose to do what God asks, or not.  So the thoughts to do wrong exist, but it is what we CHOOSE to do that makes the difference.
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Man dies, it was a spiritual death but it was the beginning of physical death for man.  Adam and Eve could have had eternal life right in the Garden of Eden.  We now can have eternal life through forgiveness of our sins that Jesus gave us on the Cross.
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First of all, we don't know what fruit it was.  The Bible never says an apple.  Second of all, if Adam and Eve hadn't eaten of the forbidden fruit they would have never become mortal and had children.  We would not even be here today, only Adam and Eve would still be livingin the Garden of Eden.  So Eve's partaking of the forbidden fruit, from the tree of knowledge of good and evil was the most wonderful thing that could have ever taken place.  Without Eve's actions you wouldn't be sitting in front of a computer terminal asking this question.
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No of course not. What kind of a question is that? It's 100% false and Jesus was perfect and did not sin at all. Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation and wanted to put into practice what the Bible(God's Word) says. If Martin Luther were alive today, he would be apalled by what you said.
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In deciding that, consider Moses, who couldn't enter the Promise Land as a result of just one sin.  The question is whether his sin was what he did, or thinking that because of all the good he did that one sin wouldn't count?  Never assume to know what God may or may not think of something.
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In the Old Testament he was reactive.  That's cause the people brought that out in him.  In modern times he is not reactive, but neither is he proactive; he's taken a wait-and-see attitude.  Why do you ask?  Are you an atheist looking for an argument?