創世記3:20-24

3:20 亞當給他妻子起名叫夏娃，因為她是眾生之母。
3:21 耶和華上帝為亞當和他妻子用皮子做衣服給他們穿。
3:22 耶和華上帝說：「那人已經與我們相似，能知道善惡；現在恐怕他伸手又摘生命樹的果子吃，就永遠活著。」
3:23 耶和華上帝便打發他出伊甸園去，耕種他所自出之土。
3:24 於是把他趕出去了；又在伊甸園的東邊安設基路伯和四面轉動發火焰的劍，要把守生命樹的道路。

²⁰ Adam^[c] named his wife Eve,^[d] because she would become the mother of all the living.

²¹ The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. ²² 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.” ²³ So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. ²⁴ After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side^[e] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

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    上帝讓人無法接近生命樹，是要人不必一直存在犯罪的狀態之下，使人不讓罪惡轄制到永遠。所以，說到死亡若能夠了解一些事情，那死亡反而是恩典，雖然人心不甘願。

    因此，人要享受永生就必須解決罪惡的問題，不然永生所帶來的是無限期的痛苦，倒不如不要永生，也因為這樣，我們不可以支持「靈魂不死」的看法，不然人的苦痛是永恆的，有違背上帝愛的屬性！

    感謝主！上帝有設立耶穌基督裡的救恩，使我們透過耶穌基督承受永生是充滿福樂，而不是愁苦！祂讓犯罪者雖然面對火不滅、蟲不死的地獄，但是這樣的命運是短暫不是永遠的！因為上帝不喜悅人一直承受痛苦！