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Euphemism: an inoffensive word or phrase substituted for one considered offensive or hurtful, esp one concerned with religion, sex, death, or excreta. Jesus used a euphemism for death when He said Lazarus slept. However, if you then say that "death = sleep", i.e., you hold to the euphemism as...

and @Idolater Interestingly, there's a margin note in the Geneva Bible that agrees with DLH. You probably already know that the Geneva Bible was an entire English translation produced in Switzerland around the time of the Reformation (John Calvin was still alive and in Switzerland) by English...

We could go back and forth all day on this, but I don’t see the point. The verse I cited from Hebrews says “in the day” was forty days. The verse I cited from Genesis was obviously not a single day, according to the previous chapter. Just because something happened within the same 24 hours...

You want to believe I said something I didn’t say, that’s up to you, but it’s not worth the time to me. Thanks anyway.

"In the day" is a prepositional phrase. It IS a modifier...of something else. Within the phrase is a preposition and an object of the preposition. The Object of the preposition is a noun, which has a modifier: "the". Also within the prepositional phrase is a dependent clause, "that the LORD God...

That's funny, because that's exactly what I was suggesting you were doing--taking Sunday School teachers' and poor translations as if they are God's word. However bad they might be as "substitutes", they are still good resources--even Sunday School teachers. Just like if you didn't know what...

And my position is that such isn’t the case--Adam and Eve died physically IN the day they ate the fruit. The construction of the sentence, without additional modifiers on "day" indicate that it means, or at least can mean, an "age", or a period of time. Like here: [Gen 2:4 KJV] These [are] the...

That's not completely true. It's a faith based on following the priests of scientism--"follow the science" (i.e., "believe what we tell you to believe").

Sorry unrelated. Please try again in another thread.

Kind of like a machine, eh?

You just lowered my respect for you about 25% with that fallacy.

If man is tripartite, then without the three parts, you don't have a man. Thus, when man dies, there's no need to explain what happens to other parts--there are no other parts left. I'm sure it comforts you to repeat the mantra, but there are no passages that say either of those things...

Then you have to wonder why God would threaten death for eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but never carry it out. But Jesus talked about it.

I just quoted the scripture that applies. It said they would die. This is in contrast to what God did when He gave them life. If Adam started as dust, and God made him alive, then what would he be when he dies? Wouldn't he return to what he was before? Dust? Then their punishment was complete...

The calculations we can make regarding distance light has traveled assumes that the conditions we think we observe today (using that same light) have stayed the same since the light was emitted. We have other evidence—eyewitness accounts—that contradict the assumptions.

We, yes, but Satan? No. We never hear about a spiritual being dying. Maybe it can happen, but the Bible doesn’t talk about it. If we assume from that lack of evidence (always a risk) that Satan can’t die, then he doesn’t get eternal life like we do, who haven’t had it since Adam’s fall until Christ.

But does the Bible ever teach that death is the cessation of existence? Even one time?

Yes. Disobedience to God. I’m pretty sure this is consistent with answer I already gave. Edit: and perhaps “could” should replace “would” in your question. The first words the Bible tells us God spoke to Adam allow for man not to live forever.

I don’t understand this comment, ffree. Can you explain?

Good! We’re closing in on some agreement. Why would you need the “apart from God” caveat? Surely it is God we are talking about: Genesis 2:16-17 (NKJV) 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 “but of the tree of the knowledge of good...