In Genesis 2:17 God warns Adam that on the day he eats of the tree he shall surely die. Yet Genesis 5:5 says Adam lived 930 years. In Genesis 3:4 the serpent tells Eve that she will not surely die. The argument says that on a plain reading the threat was not carried out when stated and the serpent’s word was nearer the facts, unless “in the day” is stretched to mean centuries later.
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Genesis 2:17
Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.
Genesis 5:5
But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
Genesis 3:4
Source: see Credits and references (no. 33, p. 27).