1. The Immortal Man

After having created him, God took the man, put him into the garden of Eden and commanded him saying:

”16 Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

(Genesis 2.16,17)

The temptation and at the same time the curiosity to still eat from the forbidden fruit had been so much irresistible, that the first two humans didn’t follow the command of the Lord.

But the command contained a deeper meaning: it has been a test of trust in God’s word.

Because of their disobedience they now became mortal beings.
All their descendants have inherited the tragic consequence of this contravention, over the entire history of mankind to this very day.

We feel in our own lives the loss of our close relatives and friends and with the process of ageing we become more and more aware that we aren’t immortal too, even ourselves.

But in the beginning it hadn’t been so:

God had created the man as an immortal being.