Adam and the Tree of Knowledge

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In a message dated 99-02-15 09:36:47 EST, you write:

<< Subj:	 Re: Adam and the Tree of Knowledge
 Date:	99-02-15 09:36:47 EST
 From:	etyler@truman.edu (Ed Tyler)
 Sender:	owner-errancy@infidels.org
 To:	errancy@infidels.org (ERRANCY)
 
 At 10:39 PM 2/13/99 +0000, Joseph Crea wrote:
 >Hello, Joe!
 >
 >At 05:09 PM 2/13/99 EST, JAlw@aol.com wrote:
 >>Achilles:
 >>
 >>
 >>[God said] 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
 (Gen
 >>2:17). . . and [Adam] did eat (Gen 3:6). . .And all the days that Adam
lived
 >>were nine hundred and thirty (Gen 5:5)
 >>===========
 >>Joe Alward:
 >>
 >>Matt has implied that this is not a contradiction; would he, or anyone else
 >>explain why?  Do inerrantists claim that Adam died a spiritual death?
 >
 >
 >CREA
 >   Short answer --Yes.  See my response to Aaron's reply to Matt's  posting
 >titled "Packing my bags!".
 >
 >
 Ed
 
 Actually, it's not a "contradiction," although the inerrantist explanation
 is incorrect.  The "On the day X occurs he/you will die" formula is a
 figurative pronouncement made by rulers and is found several times
 throughout the Old Testament is contexts where it is apparent that death is
 not necessarily going to result on that particular day.  It's merely a
 ruler's way of assigning the death penalty to a given transgression.
=============
Joe Alward:

First, what is the "incorrect" inerrantist explanation?

I did a search on "day" and "die" in the Bible and found no examples of the
kind you're referring to.  Can you guide me to a particular verse?

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