Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

Why have you said that Adam ‘was’ and continues to be…?
The text clearly saids that he has ‘become’ (hayah) like one of ‘us’.

Because it is in the perfect tense. Adam “is” like God and he always “was” like God because he was created in the image of God. His becoming like God didn’t just happen that day. It didn’t happen because of the event of eating the fruit. The reference is to the nature of man what he actually “is” now and who he “was” in the past because of the creation of God.