My Journey to Life, Step 7—State of the Dead, Death and Resurrection

3. What about Adam and Eve? Weren’t they created immortal?

Adam and Eve were created with conditional immortality. God gave them free will—the power of choice. If they obeyed God and did not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they would remain immortal. If they disobeyed, they would lose their immortality and be subject to death, Genesis 2:17. Thus, immortality is not innate to humanity but is God’s gift. Adam and Eve lost immortality when they sinned. JTL7 2.6