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Old 11-29-2006, 01:27 PM   #101
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I think we'll have to agree to disagree. If it is an idiom, then it would make no sense to take it literally. If it was meant to be taken literally, then God is lying or didn't keep his word. I think that the context itself, as well as the context of 1 Kings, suggests it was an idiom. But it would be good to see other examples.
1 Kings 14:14 appears to be idiomatic. It is the prophecy foretelling the ruin of the house of Jeroboam:

"The Lord shall raise him a king of Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day",.

The emphasis here is on the inevitability of what is prophecied, rather than the timescale. A few minutes with a standard concordance will reveal a number of verses containing "that day" that refer to events in the future, where the emphasis is on the inevitability of what will happen. I know it is not precisely the wording "the day", but given that both the passage in Genesis and the Solomon passage are predictions of a future event, I think that the comparison is legitimate.

Also, ther are verses where "the same day" appears:

God spoke to Moses the selfsame day saying...(Deuteronomy 32:48).

Again, a standard concordance will list other examples. I'm no Hebrew scholar, and I am assuming that the English translations are mirroring different Hebrew words, and if that is the case, then if the author of Genesis 2 had intended for God to say that Adam would die on the same day, he could have done so quite clearly and without ambiguity. That he did not would I think lend support to the argument that it was primarily the inevitability of the judgement, and not it's timing, that he had in view.
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