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Because He was focusing on the more important sin of rejecting the Holy Spirit’s prompting, which is <eventually> unforgivable.

What is the penalty for sin? Death. What will happen to every person? Death (Enoch and Elijah might be deferred). Thus every person is born with a sentence of death that has to be set aside in some way—except Jesus. He is also the only one after Adam and Eve without a human father. Therefore it...

God can do a lot of things He doesn’t tell us about. But if we assume He does them, we’re outside of His revealed truth. Studying the Bible for 50 years doesn’t allow us to make up stuff about God.

And pink elephants can fly.

Then you agree that there are no flying pink elephants in the gospel—and you know that because scripture tells us nothing about flying pink elephants in the gospel. That’s great! Now apply that same mode of thinking to your posts—and be careful not to add to scripture by saying Adam was indwelt...

You mean some gospel you made up and stand by because the Bible doesn’t mention it positively or negatively? Like pink elephants flying? Maybe you can refute flying pink elephants from scripture. Otherwise it must be part of the gospel, right?

As have I. But we’re supposed to be ready to give an answer for the hope that is within us. Where does this answer come from? How do you try the spirits? Aren’t both from the scriptures?

Keep in mind, @Robert Pate, that I disagree with @Right Divider on a number of things. I don’t think his style is any more or less childish than yours. But if you use the absence of evidence as positive affirmation, there’s no way you’ll end up with proper doctrine. Even in disagreement, I can...

What you’re saying is that as long as scripture doesn’t specifically deny something, then that something is true. What @Right Divider is saying is that if scripture doesn’t specifically support something, that something may be false. Here’s an example: “pink elephants can fly.” With your...

You’re beyond what scripture says, and into false doctrine.

Then why couldn’t man be the same—created good, and then became evil? Why would man need to be filled with Satan’s spirit from birth to be evil?

Whose sinful nature did Satan inherit?

Yes, there’s evil in the world, because people have a tendency toward evil. They are in bondage to sin. Hebrews says it’s because of the fear of death, as I pointed out before.

What exactly is a “spirit” that someone is born with? Surely you’re not saying everyone is born possessed by Satan?

Everyone is born assured of death. The only hope they have is Jesus Christ, who raises people from the dead. If they had no spirit, how could they be alive when born? It’s the fear of death that keeps people in bondage to sin: Hebrews 2:15 (NKJV) and release those who through fear of death were...

So now you’re saying he starts out dead, dies again, then is resurrected and will die again.

Absolutely! And both include the physical body. So why do you feel the need to insert “spiritual” next to death?

And if the wages of sin is death, God would be unjust to punish people twice for the same crime. So they are being punished by the lake of fire for a different crime. Do you know what it is?

You’re right that the second death is the lake of fire, but it’s a second physical death, as people that experience it are first resurrected. John 5:29 (NKJV) “and come forth--those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

Notice how you have to keep putting “spiritual” before death for it to make sense? Why is that? Salvation results in eternal life, at least part of it does. But that’s because we are resurrected from the first death, and protected from the second. Revelation 2:11 (NKJV) “He who has an ear...