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Does Genesis 2:17 Contradict Genesis 5:5? Why didn't Adam die the day he ate the fruit?

Genesis 2:17

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.

Genesis 5:5

5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

God says that Adam will die the day he eats from the tree, yet he eats from the tree (Genesis 3:6), and lives to be 930 years old.

Whoever is raising this as a contradiction has decided, based on nothing, that the only death that Adam can suffer is physical. That isn't what the Bible teaches at all, anywhere.

The Bible teaches that when a person sins, their spirit dies (Romans 6:23, 7:9). That's why a new birth is required (John 3:3-7). When it happens, the person is described as being raised from the dead, and passed from death unto life:

Ephesians 2:1

1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

John 5:24

24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

Adam and Eve died spiritually the instant they ate the fruit. Genesis 2:17 does not refer to physical death.