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What happens to Adam and Eve after they eat the forbidden fruit?
Man and woman both eat the forbidden fruit, and neither die. The serpent was right. Thus, God banishes Adam and Eve from the garden as punishment for defying his command, and places angels bearing flaming swords at Eden’s gates to ensure that neither man nor woman could ever return.
What happened to Adam and Eve after eating the apple?
When Eve is tempted by the serpent and eats the forbidden fruit, Father makes Adam choose between Him and Eden, or Eve. Adam chooses Eve and eats the fruit, causing Father to banish them into the wilderness and destroying the Tree of Knowledge, from which Adam carves a staff.
What happened to Adam and Eve after they ate the Forbidden Fruit?
When Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, they experienced a separation from God, a loss of relationship due to their sin. Their first actions after sinning were to cover themselves up and hide from God (Genesis 3:7-8). This alienation from the Source of Life can be viewed as spiritual death.
Did Adam and Eve die physically or spiritually?
Adam and Eve didn’t die physically but they did die spiritually (knowing the nature of the true God) right then. Before they ate the fruit they might have seen the tree hundreds of times without desiring to eat from it because God told them not to.
Did Adam eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil?
Answer: God commanded Adam not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil: “Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17). However, Adam and Eve ate of the tree and lived to tell about it.
Why did God drive Adam and Eve out of the garden?
Finally, God drove Adam and Eve out of the garden and placed an angel to guard the tree of life. Instead of communing daily with God, the sin of the first man and woman made them unworthy to stand in their creator’s holy presence. You might be wondering right now: Did God overreact to Adam and Eve’s sin?