There is no evidence for this. In fact, the way to get immortality was clearly to eat from the Tree of Life. The punishment was NOT death, but having to work and childbirth pains and not being spoonfed in a garden of paradise. Those poor, poor kids ...
You are confusing everlasting life with immortality...they are not the same. Immortals cannot die, but man was created mortal. He needed to have access to air, food, water and the "tree of life" in order to keep on living indefinitely. Once sin entered into the picture, access to the "tree of life" was prohibited. No imperfect human was going to be permitted to live forever.(Gen 3:22-24)
What humans had was not a life of luxury at all. They were created with strong bodies built for work.
Their assignment was to "fill the earth and subdue it". This entailed turning the whole planet outside their garden home into something resembling Eden. You have the wrong picture entirely. God made humans in his image, with his flair for creativity a love for satisfying work.
That is why, unlike man, God looks to the heart. In other words, He looks at motive. A person who can't stop doing evil things is likely crazy, which is different than being evil.
Unfortunately, the world is full of both...God knows the difference.
Asthma and such exist, more or less, because we have tried too hard to remove pollutants/diseases from our lives, so our bodies go haywire since the immune system God built into us can no longer do its job and fight real problems. We had the Garden of Eden and look how that turned out (though they couldn't sin because they were like impulsive kids, not rational adults). We need to defend against sin, not wish it away, because it's simply not going to happen.
We are not anywhere close to the perfection that Adam and his wife enjoyed. When God pronounced the death sentence on those rebels, he did not say that he would specifically do anything, but he enumerated what the natural consequence of sin would mean to a human body. Imperfection now infiltrated every cell, causing the things that he told them. If our immune systems worked the way they are supposed to, we would not be open to infection like we are now. If man had not over-prescribed antibiotics, then the bacteria would not have adapted to preserve its species. They are predicting a holocaust of drug resistant strains of bacteria. Hospitals are already crawling with them.
You obey EVERY rule ever made in the bible? How many animals have you sacrificed lately? Did you ever kill smart-mouthed children?
No imperfect human can do anything perfectly. Israel were given a set of laws that don't apply to gentiles. Christ came and fulfilled that part of the law rendering it no longer binding on his disciples. Christ's teachings are simple but far reaching.
Matt 22:36-40:
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 He said to him: “‘You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind.’ 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 The second, like it, is this: ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments the whole Law hangs, and the Prophets."
All the laws and teachings of the prophets boiled down to just two simple commands...'Love God with your whole being and love your neighbor as yourself'
To the best of our imperfect ability we try to do this. This is our sacrifice to God.
But look what happened "in the beginning". Insanity is doing the same exact thing and expecting a different result.
That is what the last 4,000 years has been about....making sure that what happened in Eden can NEVER happen again.
Our whole existence has been about who we accept as our God and who we listen to as our teachers. How we exercise our free will and how important God's laws are to us.
Can we break them with impunity and claim that the devil made us do it? Try that one on and see how it works....
Humans also have impulse control problems. Many are highly thoughtless. Your point?
Impulse control is a kind of mental illness. If a person cannot truly help what they do, God knows. He just isn't into excuses. He only accepts reasons....sometimes we don't know the difference. Your best may not be my best. God doesn't accept lame excuses any more than he accepted lame sacrifices.
Ants farm fungi and sometimes aphids. Just sayin'.
Ants didn't plan to farm aphids...they are programmed to farm aphids. Its called symbiosis and it occurs in nature more often than we think. There are vast eco-systems that are interdependent and all work together in harmony until some clever human comes along and mucks it up.
It's not foreign, though. Only a tiny amount of living things can be "immortal". Nearly everyone and every living things die.
All living creatures on this planet have a cycle of life and death and replacement by reproduction. Death is a natural part of life for them....all except humans get on with life without elaborate funerals, memorials and mourning rituals. Dogs and cats will bury their food but not their corpses. God has a team of garbage collectors who will break down that body and it will become part of the environment whilst providing life support for other creatures. It is the perfect kind recycling. How often do you ever see dead birds? Yet they die by the thousands every day.
Humans have no program for death....we were not created to die...so aging, sickness and death are as foreign to us now as they were to Adam and his wife.
Jesus came to get us back what we lost. It is not that complicated.
