The Gift of God

There is a sense even in the Hebrew Bible of existence outside of your body. Of humans, they're just immortal. Did they just live forever? We have some immortal quality built in. And so I think the statement that the garden narrative, Eden narrative is trying to say is humans are mortal. It's only by being placed in proximity to God's eternal life that is in the garden that we can be transformed to whatever that transformation of existence is to eternal life. For anyone who's optimistic about any kind of existence beyond death, it's the positive statements in the Psalms that it's the gift of God.