Therefore, they'd be robots in disguise
BTW, Romans 5:12 -just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned
Interesting scripture! This seems to support the idea of "spiritual death" I mentioned earlier.
ParanoiaD, thanks for your comments on 1914, by the way. I've been meaning to reply.
I personally believe it refers to a physical death. I believe we are all sinners, since we all fall to temptation, & make mistakes. And I believe, that when we die, we basically go to sleep(sheol/hades/hell/the common grave of mankind), rather then having a spiritual soul that goes to heaven, or a firey hell(which became Christian doctrine somewhere around the 3rd Century AD). For instance, Ecclesiastes 9:5: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.” Ecclesiastes 9:10: “All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going.” Ezekial 18:4: “The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.” Even animals are called "lving souls"
At Genesis 2:7 it says "the man came to be a living soul" rather then saying he was given a soul. I believe however, that after Armageddon, people that died, that only went to the "grave", will be resurrected to everlasting life on a paradise earth.
Oh, & back to temptation, & Adam & Eve sinning. They were perfect when they sinned, which means they would have to sin on purpose. They clearly chose to sin. I've never been perfect, as like everyone else, am a sinner. So, for me to sin, is a competely different story on it's own. Jesus, was born perfect, & never sinned, but, saw what it was like, to have temptations, especially when Satan offered him all the nations of the world, if Jesus would do an act of obeisance to him, because Satan has complete control over the nations of the world. But he resisted, unlike Adam & Eve. And eventually, he was killed as a perfect man, as a sacrifice, to give us a chance to get back what Adam & Eve had screwed up.
Also, I should mention, I hold no ill feelings toward anyone here, we all have our own beliefs, & that's just life. But, I've always wondered why people who don't believe in God, seem to get mad(correct me if I'm wrong), just because someone else does believe in God? It's one thing to state what you believe, but it's another to put other's down for their beliefs. Can't we all just........get along?