Dear Bro.

Eli,

I know that brevity is important to you. I am trying to choose the most apt words to
express this question of mine. Please bear with me.

Was there a promise of everlasting life in heaven to Adam had he not committed
sin? Since Adam knew that he was going to die, was he expecting to be resurrected
to join his Maker, our God, in the heavens when he wasn’t committing his erroneous
act yet?

When God created man, was it already part of His plan to resurrect man and
change his physical body in His time so that man could live forever with Him in His
Heaven?

These questions pop up unintentionally in my mind when I heard you preached

about Adam having known that he’d die. I really thought before that hadn’t Adam
committed sin, he could have lived forever on the earth. That belief has been
changed when I heard the words of God through you. Glory be to God.

Our love and regards to you and your fellows.

A friend Christian

Dear A friend Christian,

Reality and the bible makes up the truth that we have to discern. God’s word in the
Bible is truth.

(John 17:17) “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”

Reality is truth but, divided into two: Physical or ‘seen’ reality and spiritual or
‘unseen’ reality.

(Romans 1:19-20) “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in

them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the
creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are
made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse…”

There are angels, spirits, demons, and a host of other spiritual beings that exist in
reality.

(Ephesians 6:12) “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

(Revelations 16:14) “For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go
forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the
battle of that great day of God Almighty.”

(Hebrews 1:14, 7) “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for
them who shall be heirs of salvation?”

“And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a
flame of fire.”

There are physicists that do not believe in the

existence of spiritual beings but, there unbelief does
not make this reality a fiction.

You may have heard the term “the spirit of the glass”
and “hypnotism”. The glass moves and conveys a
message by an unseen force, proving that there is a
supernatural power that moves it. Hypnotism works
among people especially among those who do not
believe in the gospel, and a person can be hypnotized
by someone many miles away. In fact, hypnosis is
being utilized in clinics around the world to treat or
calm hysterical patients. These acts are prohibited by
the Bible.

(Deuteronomy 18:10-12) “There shall not be found

among you any one that maketh his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth
divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter,
or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with
familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For
all that do these things are an abomination unto the
LORD: and because of these abominations the
LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.”

God condemns these demonic practices.

God is a spirit, and He knows that flesh and physical things has their limit. Science
has understood the wearing of physical things through the process of oxidation.

Oxidation is the interaction between oxygen molecules and all the different
substances they may contact, from metal to living tissue. Sometimes oxidation is not
such a bad thing, as in the formation of super-durable anodized aluminum. Other
times oxidation can be destructive, such as the rusting of an automobile or the
spoiling of fresh fruit.

God knows, when He created the body of Adam, that it can not exist for eternity.

(1 Corinthians 15:39, 50) “All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of
flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.”

“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of
God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”

God taught Adam the fact that there is eternal life. He will die the day he eats of the
forbidden fruit.

(Genesis 2:17) “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not
eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
God is a spirit (John 4:23-24) and speaks of spiritual things. When He said that on
the day Adam eat of the fruit he will surely die, He does not speak of the physical
body of Adam. Evidently, Adam lived for nine hundred fifty years.

(Genesis 5:4-5) “And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight
hundred years: and he begot sons and daughters: And all the days that Adam
lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.”

While the flesh or the body of Adam lives, his real being has died in the presence of
God.

(1 Timothy 5:6) “But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.”

God speaks of those physically dead, but living in His sight, and those that live
physically but, are dead in His sight.

(Matthew 22:32) “I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

Of course, God is the best one to know who lives and who are dead because He sees
the spiritual and physical side of reality.

(Ephesians 2:1, 5) “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and
sin.”

“Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by
(grace ye are saved)”

Physical reality suggests that everything physical known to man has its limits of
existence. Science knows this for a fact. Oxygen gives life to the flesh of man, but
would you believe that the word of God gives life, also?

(John 6:63) “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words
that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life”

(Matthew 4:4) “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God”

Think about it and you will know why Adam died long before his flesh did.

Thank you and God Bless.

EFS