Sinthesis
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What is your answer to that?Were Adam and Eve intended to live forever?
JLB
Were they created with procreative organs?
When Adam was alone, and God described the beasts and birds, it said that they were made 'after their kind'. The plants and fruits were also to bear seed.
Then he says that there was not found a help meet suitable for Adam [after his kind].
The intended purpose of seed and procreation 'after their kind' is to replenish and reproduce. This implies a necessary intended term or lifespan of the life that physically produces the seed. Otherwise the earth would have been overpopulated within a few thousand years.
If a day is as 1000 yrs, and a 'day' is also used as a reference to a mans lifespan; when God told Adam that 'in the day you eat thereof, you shall surely die; I believe that he was not invoking a new 'death' but declaring the shortening of his lifespan to be within the 1000 yr "day". Adam lived 930 yrs, shortened by 70 yrs [hmmmm 70.... where does that number occur elsewhere?] . He/They ALSO incurred immediate spiritual separation from confidence of God's presence that DAY as evidenced in their shame and trying to hide from him.
The culprit was the stimulative, conditional law of 2 trees along with the presence of an injector of twisted words into their data collector [brain].
At the end of Revelation, both the stipulations of two trees and the serpent [lies, doubt, twisting] are cast out for those who are 'within' the kingdom. There is one law [one tree] of justification by faith. Rom 3:27-31; John 4:28,29; 1 John 3:21-23; Matt 16:13-19.
In Is 65 the lifespans are declared to generally be in the 100 yr time-frame as compared with 70-80 yrs under law.
In Is 60:22 it says A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
In the context of the surrounding chapters, the 'nation' is the nation of christian believes at that time. See Is 66:8, 65:15 and 26:2,15.
But how does or did s a 'little one' become a thousand? How much short of 1000 did the first Adam live?....
Some food and ideas intended for thought.
Were Adam and Eve intended to live forever?
JLB
No.