Reply #12: That's right, it seems to me that God lied. My Christian friends would say the "death"

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was spiritual death, which is to say that they became sinful. But the same people will insist that there was no physical death prior to this cosmic event (no evolution, remember?). Death entered the world with Adam's sin. OK, fine. But in that case God lied when he said,
"in the DAY that you eat from it you shall surely die." Genesis 2:17.