In the Old Testament, God instructs Adam:
Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
(NKJV Genesis 2:16-7)
Adam did eat, and he didn’t die, but he did find himself cast out of the garden.
In the Gospel of John, ...
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