David,
I appreciate your response, and the quote. I have heard this explanation of �in the day� before, and I think it is a good one. And it may be all that was intended by what God said. But I don�t think we can escape the fact that they were also banned from the one tree which God said would give them eternal life, were they to eat from it. And if you lose access to life, you either gain death, or maintain your course with it(as I have proposed). And as far as we know, the banishment happened in the same 24 hour day. So perhaps both were intended. It wouldn�t be the last time in scripture where there would be dual meanings. Either way, I think either one or both of these are very acceptable explanations, and I am confused as to why the verse causes a conflict in believing that God does what he says he will do.
My commentary here is indirectly related to your inquiry and you may or may not consider it as you evaluate the more specific replies to your query. Anton Chekov wrote, “No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.” I contend Chekov's quote is analogous to the "experts" you allude to. At any rate, I will await the responses you seek with interest but in the mean time let me suggest that a day is 1000 years for Hashem and 1000 years is a day. Thus, Adam & Hawaah (Eve) did die within a "day" as neither reached 100 years of life. Neither do we know at what age Hashem created them.
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