FAQ

The Creator's words, "behold, the man is become as one of us," are most likely nothing other than irony. The point is precisely that man does not become like God as a result of the Fall. But at the same time, sinful man remains face to face with the main fruit of his sin: suffering. To allow him the possibility of living in eternity would mean condemning him to eternal suffering; God, in His great mercy, judged otherwise. Furthermore, in the strict sense of the word, the source of life is only God Himself, whose faithfulness Adam renounced in the Fall. The words of Gen 3:22 should perhaps be understood not as the establishment of a prohibition, but as a statement of fact: as a result of sin, man finds himself in the absence of God, the Source of life. For the Bible, this is exactly what is called death.