The Hebrew phrase מוֹת תָּמוּת literally means, “dying, you will die.” Adam’s spirit died the instant he ate but his body lived for 930 years (Genesis 5.5). Physical death die not occur when he ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil but spiritual death occurred immediately. God warned Adam of the consequence of disobedience:ġ6 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die” (Genesis 2.16-17).Īdam failed the test. The whole earth belonged to man with the exception of the fruit of one tree. God placed Man into a perfect environment. Lastly, God gave man a human spirit through which he could communicate with and appreciate God. Through mind man can reason, through will, he can choose, and with emotion, he can appreciate the perceptions of his mind and senses.

God gave man a soul composed of mind, will, and emotion. Man had the potential to live forever by eating from the Tree of Lives, ( מֵעֵץ הַחַיִּים, Genesis 3.22). God gave man a body with five senses: taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing to perceive and enjoy the external world. God created man as a tripartite being, composed of body, soul, and spirit (1 Thessalonians 5.23 Hebrews 4.12). This article is about anthropology or what makes man man. We are special!Ģ6 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him male and female He created them (Genesis 1.26-27). This is not said of angels, much less of any other of God’s creatures.

This made Man unique among all of God’s creations. The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die” (Genesis 2.16-17).įor as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive (1 Corinthians 15.22).

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