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Adventistische Schriften über: "Did Adam die only because of the Flood?"
Answer
No, Adam did not die only because of the Flood. The scriptures show that he lived a total of 930 years and died long before the Flood. He did witness the increasing corruption that later prompted God to judge the earth with a flood, but his own life had already ended centuries earlier after a life full of repentance and in hope of the resurrection.
Adam's Lifespan and His Death Before the Flood
»And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. ... He experienced the general corruption, which God eventually caused to destroy the inhabitants of the earth with a flood. Although the death sentence imposed on him by his Creator initially seemed so dreadful to him, after he had lived a few hundred years he regarded it as just and merciful from God, ending a miserable life in this way.«
Adam's End of Life in Hope of the Resurrection
»With patient humility he bore the penalty of transgression for almost a thousand years. Faithfully he repented of his sin, trusted in the merits of the promised Redeemer, and died in hope of a resurrection.«
The Execution of the Death Sentence on Adam
»He experienced the general corruption, which God later finally caused to destroy the inhabitants of the earth with a flood. The death sentence imposed on him by his Creator, which had initially seemed so dreadful to him, appeared to him, after he had lived a few hundred years, as just and merciful from God's side, to put an end to a miserable life.«
Adam's Lifespan of 930 Years
»But did he endure the punishment? He did. "And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.«
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