Imortality

Christian exegetes of Genesis 2:17 ("for in the day that you eat of it you shall die") have applied the day-year principle to explain how Adam died within a day. Psalms 90:4 , 2 Peter 3:8 explained that, to God, one day is equivalent to a thousand years and thus Adam died within that same "day". The Greek Septuagint , on the other hand, has "day" translated into the Greek word for a twenty-four-hour period (ἡμέρα, hēméra ).

According to the Genesis narrative, during the

antediluvian age, human longevity approached a millennium, such as the case of Adam who lived 930 years. Thus, to "die" has been interpreted as to become mortal.However, the grammar does not support this reading, nor does the narrative: Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden lest they eat of the second tree, the tree of life , and gain immortality. [Gen. 3:22]