Chosen Unto a Particular Atonement
The day Adam disobeyed God and ate of the forbidden fruit, he died spiritually. He did not become spiritually sick, weak or partially paralyzed, but spiritually dead. Did God not tell Adam that the day he sinned he would die? We must insist that he died that day and that God did not simply mean that physical death would begin in Adam that day. That is true; it did begin in him and was complete 930 years later. But spiritual death came completely that day. And that is why Jesus told...