Back then, the door of opportunity was not closed until Yahweh closed the door of the ark, sealing the fate of all who were outside of it......and guaranteeing the safety of all on board.
Peter said that what corresponds to Noah’s ark is our baptism....our solemn dedication to Yahweh as faithful disciples of his Christ. (1 Peter 3:18-21)
Saints in Christ Jesus are reborn, baptized, and sanctified unto the resurrected Yahweh Jesus Christ.
All other christs are false, especially the created ones. Jesus is the only true Christ and God.
Humans were given opportunity to “live forever” in their mortal flesh, with access to “the tree of life” (Genesis 3:22-24).....it required their continued obedience. It is all God has ever asked of his children.
The tree of life is for the soul, not the mortal body: Those who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and God, are now eating of the tree of life freely,
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
The tree of life is the spiritual flesh and blood of the Lamb of God.
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
The natural man rejects this as offensive, since all they know is mortal flesh and blood.
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
Adam knew what the death penalty meant, and he was not deceived by the serpent as his wife was. (1 Timothy 2:13-14)
Adam did not know, nor does the naturally minded today want to know, that God speaks of the soul dying
in the very day, that any man sins with the devil against Christ.
And Adam didn't believe God at all about any dying, which is why he sinned against Him. Disobedience is proof of unbelief.
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
There never was a hope of Adam to “live immortally in the flesh”.
The vain hope of Adam was and still is immortality of the physical body on this earth, as gods unto themselves, doing both good and evil as they choose.
Humans were given opportunity to “live forever” in their mortal flesh, with access to “the tree of life” (Genesis 3:22-24)....
This is the false hope of all natural Adams, that the physical body was ever made to be immortal, rather than all flesh on earth being naturally mortal.
The death penalty for disobedience would have been meaningless if the humans had been immortals.
The death penalty for sinning is only for the soul, which is meaningless to the natural mind, that has not the Spirit nor Jesus Christ dwelling within.
Adam made a deliberate choice to side with his wife and to die with her, rather than to obey his God and lose her. Satan divided his loyalties and gained the entire human race that would descend from them as his own. All he wanted was their worship and he sacrificed them to gain it. He lied about the death penalty.
I also thought as a sinner, that Adam did it for his wife, because he loved her too much.
Adam sinned with the devil, because he rejected God's commandment not to. He already agreed with the devil, that God is unjust to punish disobeying Him.
Eve was decieved, and Adam didn't want to believe the death penalty, because he didn't want to keep the commandment.
Satan divided his loyalties and gained the entire human race that would descend from them as his own.
The only souls Satan gains are those sinning with Him against Christ, even as Adam did.
The lie of the devil is that he is a creator and maker of his own people by birth into the world. He failed to become as the Lord Himself, and be a creator as the Lord God, but he continues to lie about it to natural theologians, that preach all men are born sinners of the devil into the world.
He lied about the death penalty.
Yes he did. He said they would not surely die, and they did surely die that day.
His current lie is that they did not die that day, which natural men believe, because they reject the spiritual things of the soul. And natural theologians only give lip service to a mortal soul that is only a physical body, and not spiritual as angels at all.
.but he chose badly and we have all paid for that...
This is the expression of those that blame their sinning on being born with it. The only one paying the price of sin, is the one sinning. No man pays for the price of another man's sin, neither the father nor the son:
They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
The unbelievers blame sin on birth, saying Adam is why all men sin:
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Only the soul that sins, is put to death for sinning:
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
I find it so fascinating to read the different interpretations of the very same scripture and to read yours just makes me scratch my head....
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
If Jesus was God, he would be their Father, but nowhere are these called ‘sons of Jesus’.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
God has written Scripture so that any and every lie against the truth of God, is plainly exposed, and the false teacher must either change it or reject it openly.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
God is Father of all spirits, and the Son is Father to all given unto Him by the Father: all that is the Father's is the Son's, and all that is the Son's is the Father's.