Alma 42:9; “Therefore, as the soul could never die, and the fall had brought upon all mankind a spiritual death as well as a temporal, that is, they were cut off from the presence of the Lord, it was expedient that mankind should be reclaimed from this spiritual death.”
Romans 5:12; “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.”
Mormons don’t believe in original sin and can’t possibly believe in this verse from Alma. This teaching of Alma is a false prophecy!
Introduction to the Gospel, pg. 312; “Joseph Smith became a prophet and spokesman for God, a living witness of the principle of continuous revelation which characterized God’s relationship to man…In the restoration, man was raised to the dignity which he had formerly known both in the Hebrew and Christian scripture. Original sin and human depravity were done away with and in their place came again Jesus’ high regard for the dignity of man, the worth of every individual as a child of God, and great emphasis on man’s freedom and accompanying moral responsibility…” – Lowell Bennion
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That verse certainly is false. Adam and Eve were going to die anyway. They had to eat to survive, right? So their ‘immortality’ was not absolute. And the tree of life was there for something. They, then, were not immortal by nature. They only would have been immortal had they eaten from the tree of life, per the story as told in Genesis, for when God tosses them out he says “lest they eat of the tree of life and live forever.” Paul’s interpretation of it, therefore, is totally off, and any traditional interpretation based on Paul is even falser than Paul’s own interpretation.
The statement “in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die” of course is literally “in the day that you eat thereof dying thou shalt die” which means “in the day you eat thereof you will begin to die by degrees.” This what we see in the real world. Most people don’t die instantly, except those who die a violent death. Most wear down over time dying by degrees. The fact that Adam didn’t die completely that day doesn’t prove that the death spoken of was ‘spiritual’ and Christianity moronically assumes, but proves that this day is only the beginning of a long protracted process of death.
We ONLY know what the Bible tells us and nothing additional. The Bible is God’s true, unerring word. The verses are correctly interpreted from other verses.
What are you basing your information/statements on? We cannot put in meanings that are not there in God’s word. There aren’t any ‘hidden’ meanings either.