Truth
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A&E died of the Life the day they ate of the tree, and then where made subject to vanity by God
Gen 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
hence the life in the flesh Paul speaks of earlier in romans 8 which is separate from the Life in and of the Spirit in this case. but the being subjected to the life in the flesh is by God but not the result of man. the Lord didn't have to let them live out any life seeing they could have bein eliminated from existence altogether. by virtue of the covenant :
Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 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.
hence God in His Mercy let them be in the life of the flesh subject to it. such as sweat of thy face to eat, and other thing mentioned by Paul in romans 8.
and you don't seem to know that the "Faith" is in the Word of God and placing belief or trust otherwise is death. and you don't know if they would have eaten from the Tree of Life and lived forever should they have disregarded the serpent's words, do you?
see the preacher's "all is vanity" without the Mercy of God to let the sons of man be born again all would have returned to the earth. all that men do returns to the earth all that God does is forever.
You probably know this, Yes they died Spiritually that Day, and then they died Physically within the 1000 year Day, Adam at the ripe old age of 930, a Day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a Day, Adam died near the end of that Day!