No, its not!
Adam did die in that 24 hour period!
You're the one who's saying he didn't die. In fact, by your definition of death, Adam didn't die at all until some 930 years later.
No, I didn't say he didn't die. I said he did die, and in that day. But just like Gen 2:4, the day is an era, or a timeframe longer than a day. That's what the context gives you.
And I don't have to redefine "death" or "day".
No it isn't. A day is a day unless the context demands otherwise.
And as I showed, there are two ways that context shows it isn't a 24-hour day. One is in Gen 2:4. The other is [Gen 5:5 KJV] And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. This is the first time there is any mention that Adam actually died. And there's no reason to believe that this is in opposition to [Gen 2:17 KJV] 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.
Saying it doesn't make it so.
You disagree with Gen 2:4? That's pretty bold.
I don't deny that it's potentially an important topic but Genesis doesn't help you at all.
Adam died the day he at that fruit! The entire bible - and I mean THE ENTIRE BIBLE - is predicated on that single fact
No, not "died the day", but "died IN the day" he ate that fruit.
Do you have some other passage that even talks about whether it was the actual 24 hour day? If not, then the predication is yours, not the bible's.
How about a verse that says "Adam died the day", as you put it?
How about a verse that says "Adam died the day" in some other phraseology?
How about any verse with any form of "die" and "Adam" that suggests how long it took Adam to die? You may include "spiritual death" in you search, if you want. I could only find one:
[Gen 5:5 KJV] And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
So context is undoubtedly on my side--I might even say THE ENTIRE BIBLE.
But here's something you should consider. If your faith is based on your understanding of THE ENTIRE BIBLE, and the entire bible doesn't have any sentence that says Adam died in some other way before he died physically, and you think the entire Bible is predicated on that fact that Adam died within 24 hours of eating that fruit--you are heading toward a conflict of faith, Brother. Hold onto truth more than you hold onto predications.
Romans 7:9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
And it isn't a metephorical death nor is it delayed! It is real and it is immediate and it would be final if not for Christ hanging on that other tree at Calvary (which is no mere coincidence).
So you're saying that Paul died the day he heard the commandment? I don't see the word "day" in that verse. And to make that scenario fit Adam, since it wasn't metaphorical, now you're saying that Adam died the day God
commanded him not to eat the fruit? That's pretty odd.
But let's look a little further on in Romans 7:
[Rom 7:13 KJV] Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin,
working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Paul says that sin works death by that which is good, not as a singular action at a point in time, but as something that happens over a period of time. "Working" is a present participle, indicating an incomplete action, something still in progress. So your passage is actually supporting my position that the death was not effected immediately, but over time.
