Question: You said: “If you eat of the tree of good and evil you will surely die.” Why does sin cause us to die?
God’s answer:

A melting candle with
the word DEATH
Meaning: It’s like anything in this world, when something becomes useless it ceases to exist after a certain time. The more we sin, the more disconnected we become from God, who is our life.
We are an I am… This is who we are, what we are. This is our purpose. When there is nothing left in us that is God (the I AM), we die, for we no longer are.