Well, come on in. This is Reasonable Faith for Dr. William L. Craig, the podcast. I'm Kevin Harris.

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and do that now. Great podcast today. Some of the questions about Dr. Craig's new book on Adam

have been popping up on Facebook. And we're going to take a look at some of those right now with Dr. Craig.

We'll build a whole world that's still having a whole lot of fun with your book in quest

of the historical Adam. And we have some questions from a Facebook page that pertain to the book.

Owen Anderson asks on Facebook, have you heard this view recently presented as new one?

Adam was created mortal and needed the fruit of the tree of life to be immortal.

This was one of the major shifts of opinion that I experienced as a result of my study of the historical Adam.

Up until this point, I had always taken physical death to be the consequence of man's fall into sin.

But as a result of my study of the historical Adam, I came to rethink this.

First of all, in 1 Corinthians 15, Paul says that the reason that we have this Soma Pseuchekon or natural body,

that is to say our mortal, corruptible body, is because that's how the first man Adam was created.

Now that was so striking when I saw that, that Adam was done mortal in virtue of his fall.

He was mortal in virtue of his creation. And then when I looked back into Genesis 3, the story of the fall,

you notice that Adam and Eve just don't fall over dead when they eat the fruit of the tree.

Even though God told them the day you eat of it, you will die. They didn't die physically on that day.

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