One of the earliest texts that we conditionalists turn to for support of our outlandish theories about human mortality is Genesis 3:22. Some modern translations treat the text as God making a prohibition against human access to the tree of life:
“And the LORD God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”1
“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.”2
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Author: Jefferson Vann
Keywords: Plato, Immortality, immortality of the soul, Immortal soul, tree of life, eternal life, eternal death
Bible reference(s): Gen 3:19, Gen 3:22
Source: “The Curse Of Immortality—Afterlife”
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