We (wordmagnifiedabovenames and I) were getting sidetracked in the thread,
Was it fair to kick Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden? So I thought of starting a new thread.
The question (or debate) was about the
Tree of Life and immortality. I think everyone knows the story of how they ate the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and were expelled from the Garden, so we don't need to dwell on that. So let concentrate this thread on the Tree of Life, and whether they were immortal before they were punished or cursed.
wordmagnifiedabovenames' view was that Adam and Eve were created perfect, free of sins and immortal. They became imperfect, sinful and lost their immortality when they ate the forbidden fruit or when God cursed or punished them.
My view was that they were never immortal before God's decree at their Fall, unless they eat the fruit from the Tree of Life, which they never did. They were created mortals, and were always mortals. My view is that their punishment was not that they lost their immortality and became mortals, but that they would suffer in life and death from then on.
What do you think?
Do you think Adam and Eve were immortal before they ate the forbidden fruit?
Or do you think they were mortals unless they ate from the Tree of Life?