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32 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
population to inhabit this earth forever . He will
accordingly remove all human wrong and imperfection.
How so, we shall see .
7 Man's everlasting life on earth is not based
on his having an immortal soul inside him. It is
dependent upon his perfect obedience to God, who
can make full provision for sustaining man's life
here forever . Man is a mortal soul, and to warn
man of this the Creator said to Adam : "Of every
tree of paradise thou shalt eat : but of the tree of
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat.
For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou
shalt die the death ." Genesis 2 :16, 17, Douay
God did not appoint the perfect man to die, but
God opened to him the opportunity of everlasting
life in human perfection in the Edenic paradise .
Only if the perfect man disobeyed would God sentence
him to death, and he would cease to exist as
a soul . This agrees with God's law stated over
thirty-four centuries later : "The soul that sinneth,
the same shall die ." Ezechiel 18 :4,20, Douay
God made no promise to take perfect man to heaven
after he had proved his obedience. The scientific
laws of God are against this : "The first man Adam
was made into a living soul ; . . . The first man
was of the earth, earthly : . . . flesh and blood
cannot possess the kingdom of God : neither shall
corruption possess incorruption ." 1 Corinthians
15 :45, 47, 50, Douay Man's death as a soul would
not open up for him the door to heaven, turning
the penalty of disobedience into a blessed oppor-
7. Why is man's eternal life not based on his having
immortality?