Were Adam and Eve going to be immortal in the Garden of Eden?

Question

I know I've heard many say that, and it may be true. But if it is true, then what does this verse mean?

Genesis 3:22

And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

Answer 1

That was after they ate the forbidden fruit.

The original setup was that they were immortal. Death only entered the world as a result of the original sin, which was not simply eating the forbidden fruit, but disobedience to God.

After they ate they knew good and evil and sin and death entered time and space.

Answer 2

Interesting that you bring this up; I was just reading this verse the day before yesterday in the Amplified Bible, and a footnote made the verse much clearer to me.

I think Adam and Eve would have lived forever if they had eaten from the Tree of Life (I don't know if Adam and Eve ate from that tree before they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, but assuming that they did, then I'd assert that the Fall introduced (eventual) physical death as well as spiritual death. If they did not, we can assume that they were still mortal and wouldn't have lived forever....)

Check it out:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis%203:22&version=45

Answer 3

No, they were going to have life everlasting.
That's what the angels have.
Presently only God and Christ have immortality.

What's the difference?
With immortality, one does not die whatsoever. Christ achieved that. God has always had it and can give it to others.

Satan and his angels where perfect angels with life everlasting, but fell to their own desires and lost that.
They will die the 'second death', after the current times and being abyssed for a thousand years

Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: over these the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Rev 20:7 And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Rev 20:8 and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Rev 20:9 And they went up over the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down out of heaven, and devoured them.
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are also the beast and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Rev 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Rev 20:14 And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire.
Rev 20:15 And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

Answer 4

Here are links to the Books of Adam and Eve. In them it says when Adam was going out of the garden of Eden he was walking on his feet for the first time. Also he said he could see the angels in heaven from the garden. He was of spirit in the garden and became flesh after eating from the tree of knowledge. It also says the righteous will return to the garden. When the bible was being put together they considered this book but genesis means beginning and there couldn't be two beginning books.

http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/freebooks/adameve/adamevetoc.html

http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/freebooks/adameve2/adameve2-toc.html

Answer 5

The gift of "everlasting life" was not among the gifts that Adam and Eve received initially. They had to earn it first. Metaphysically that gift was represented in the esoteric "ete" or BRANCH, predestined to be grafted as per Zechariah 3:8 - Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH. Hence the significance of the "master's grip" or "Lion's Paw." That "Lion's Paw" represents the grip of the "Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah." Refer to the book The Golden Fleece Found to learn how to use the Temple of Solomon to receive higher degrees of wisdom and connect history's unsolved dots by breaking codes and by matching history with the fulfilment of prophecy.

As a result of sinful seeds, we have to plant those seeds back into the earth at the time of death.

Master Boaz from The Order of Melchezedek.

Answer 6

the verse means that God gave Adam an Eve a chance to eat from the fruit of everlasting life. but instead they ate from the forbidden fruit (sinned) and before they could even touch the fruit of everlasting life He sent them out of the garden. I think in life this means he gives us a chance to live a life with him but he surrounds us in sin to see who truly belives and belongs in heaven. hope this helped!!

Answer 7

well it simply means that they had the right to eat of the fruit of everlasting life but they instead ate the only fruit forbidden for them to eat and once that was done.... they lost the chance of becoming immortal and God sent them from the garden before they could even touch the fruit of everlasting life.


I hope this helps

Answer 8

They could have been if they didn't disobey God's order. But God already knew that they would disobey him, so he made a way so that they could be saved.

Answer 9

it means we can no longer live forever

Answer 10

BECAUSE MEN BE EVIL AND LIVE FOREVER!!!!!!