You shall surely die

When God gave this warning to Adam, He did not mean that Adam would die physically that very day. However, Adam did die spiritualy at that moment. Is that clear?

And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

He had free will. He was obedient to God until he ate the fruit.

My post was concerning Genesis 2:17. In this verse God warns Adam that if he disobeyed God he would die SPIRITUALLY. I was challenged on that and did some research. The research confirmed what I said. Adam died SPIRITUALLY that day

For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

You are incorrect when you say that the Hebrews were polytheistic (please refer to the account of Abram). God is Triune and the discussion was in that context.

The Bible says that the religion of Israel and Judah was always monotheistic, but this is not so. The norm was in fact polytheism. The Hebrew Bible might tell us a wonderful story that the Israelites derived originally from Abraham, a native of Mesopotamia, and then proceeded via Joseph to Egypt where they were subsequently enslaved, and that after obtaining their freedom as recounted in the Exodus legend, they progressed to Canaan which they proceeded to take by storm. However, the archaeological evidence is that they were always native to Canaan. More...

I was discussing archaeological evidence. Do you have a source for whatever you are trying to say was proven to be incorrect?