Blain wrote:: .......Does that answer your question, Laura? Now let me ask you a couple.......IF Adam had not transgressed, he would have been immortal. I assume you agree with that? Then, do you believe immortal men and women can have children? Now let me take it a step further......suppose Eve had partaken of the FF and had fallen, but Adam had not transgressed and remained immortal. Do you think Adam (being in a higher state of immortality) could have had children with Eve (in a lower state of mortality)?
If I may interject, neither Adam nor Eve were physically immortal to start with. The death that God was talking about was spiritual death! Recall that they were bannished from the garden so they would not partake of the tree of life and, thus, live forever in a fallen and unredeemable state. Kicking them out of the garden was an act of mercy, to remove them from the presence of the tree of life, thus allowing them to be remain redeemable.
Gen 3:22b-24 ...and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever; 23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Perry
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