Question about a verse (Earth, Eden, HaShem, creation, Isaiah)

[Noachiede]

Shalom be with you all! All praises belong to the living One God of Israel. May God increase our wisdom and protect us. Could someone pls explain the verse i have bold.
God knows Good and Evil and He lives forever. Adam knew Good and Evil but if he also eated from the tree of life then he lived forever. But how can that be? no man is equal to God.May God forgive me.

22. Now the Lord God said, "Behold man has become like one of us, having the ability of knowing good and evil, and now, lest he stretch forth his hand and take also from the Tree of Life and eat and live forever."
23. And the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to till the soil, whence he had been taken.

24. And He drove the man out, and He stationed from the east of the Garden of Eden the cherubim and the blade of the revolving sword, to guard the way to the Tree of Life.

[NoahideHiker]

Gen. Rabbah 9:5 says, "And if he were to live forever, he would be likely to mislead people to follow him and to say that he too is a deity".

I don't think his gaining the ability to live forever would have made him equal to Hashem. One other aspect to think about is this, what would have been Adam's fate had he never eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? I don't think we have any indication of Adam's mortality before he ate from the tree. If the tree of Life gave immortality why was it not forbidden to eat from? Could it be that his immortality was a danger if he had the knowledge of good and evil and that is why the tree was forbidden? Could he have lived forever had he not eaten from the tree? Maybe. Who knows? It does say in chapter 2...

16. And the Lord God commanded man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat.


17. But of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat of it, for on the day that you eat thereof, you shall surely die."