QUESTION: Did Adam and Eve die, as God said they would, on the very day they ate of the forbidden fruit?
ANSWER: Yes! Death is a word that means “separation” (James 2:26). In Isaiah 59:2, we are told that our sins “separate” us from our God. This is why people who live in sin are said to be dead in their sins (Ephesians 2:1-2). On the day Adam and Eve sinned by eating of the tree, they died spiritually and were separated from God! Also on that day, they began to die physically, because they no longer had access to the tree of life.