Adam was not meant to die. No man was meant to die.
Sin is what brought death and corruption.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death;...
Adam and Eve could only die by eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:16-17 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 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.
That is why Christ had to become a man and shed His innocent pure blood on man's behalf.
Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Adam's blood was corrupt from sin.
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world,
and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
All Adams offspring were born in sin.
1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Man lost eternal life in the Garden. Christ gained eternal life for man on the cross.
again:
1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Plants are not alive by God's definition of life.
That is why plants were given for food.
Plants do not have blood.
Genesis 9:3-4 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
That is why Cain's sacrifice was not acceptable and Abel's was accepted.
Genesis 4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
Genesis 4:4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
Genesis 4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Abel shed blood for a sacrifice and Cain offered the fruit of the field.
Plants are living only in the sense that they can reproduce and have an system that responds to the environment but they do not have blood.
John 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man,
and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
John 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and
drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Man's blood became corrupt through sin. Man can only have eternal life by the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
"What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus."
Animals and man both have blood.
Life is in the blood. The shed blood of Jesus cleanses man from sin.
Hebrews 9:12
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
I apologize for assuming that The Tuatha'an was trying to disprove the bible. His or her knowledge of the bible and the fundamental doctrines of the faith are so abysmal I could only conclude he or she was totally ignorant of the scriptures and an unbeliever.
My assumption was only partly true.
Sorry Tuatha'an.
