Those who violated the terms and conditions of the OC (which were none other than loving God supremely and loving one's neighbor as oneself) were condemned to death. But this does not mean they would die immediately. Eternal death will happen after the millennium.

M: Did anyone die because they violated the terms and conditions of the OC?

R: Those who violated the terms and conditions of the OC (which were none other than loving God supremely and loving one's neighbor as oneself) were condemned to death. But this does not mean they would die immediately. Eternal death will happen after the millennium.

M: Or, was the OC annulled after the Jews worshiped the golden calf?

R: I don't think so. The fact that God rewrote the tables of stone implies that the covenant wasn't annulled.

M: And, was the OC a corporate contract (as opposed to a personal one)?

R: Yes, Ex 24 implies that.

M: Does the OC still exist today?

R: The OC - Sinaitic Covenant - was made with Israel, specifically to be a teaching tool to them, and ceased to exist when Christ died on the cross. Hebrews 8:13 In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

M: Did anyone die because they violated the terms and conditions of the OC?

R: Those who violated the terms and conditions of the OC (which were none other than loving God supremely and loving one's neighbor as oneself) were condemned to death. But this does not mean they would die immediately. Eternal death will happen after the millennium.

A: How about this: All who will not receive eternal life will eternally die under the OC. The NC is God writing His law in sinners, converting them into saints. The OC is disobey and die, which all who do not partake of the NC will experience. WDYT?

Wasn't the OC an agreement between God and the Jewish nation and ended when Jesus died on the cross?

Is it possible to sin and die eternally under the NC? What about all the people who sinned and died before God penned the OC and entered into OC relations with the Jews?

Though this covenant was made with Adam and renewed to Abraham, it could not be ratified until the death of Christ. It had existed by the promise of God since the first intimation of redemption had been given; it had been accepted by faith; yet when ratified by Christ, it is called a new covenant. The law of God was the basis of this covenant, which was simply an arrangement for bringing men again into harmony with the divine will, placing them where they could obey God's law. {RH, October 17, 1907 par. 3}

Arnold, please quote from the Bible or the SOP where it says the OC existed in Eden. I agree with you that A&E possessed the ability within themselves to live in perfect harmony with the law of God and that they lost this ability when they sinned. I also happen to believe the one and only prohibition in Eden promised a sudden and immediate second death experience should they sin. It did not hold out hope.

PS - Arnold, do you think people are capable of sinning under the terms and conditions of the NC?

Jeremiah

31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
31:33 But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Ezekiel
36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do [them].

Hebrews
10:16 This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
10:18 Now where remission of these [is, there is] no more offering for sin.

No. I see the OC as the covenant God made with sinless Adam.