A Matter of Life or Death

It is written  . . .
The Creator warned Adam

not to eat the fruit

of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,

the tree of death, 

that poisonous tree,
"you shall not eat of it;"
Said the Creator,
"for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."

Stop!
Think!
How could that warning infer anything less
than that Adam,
who had unrestrained access to the Tree of Life,
 was anything less than a living, breathing,
Immortal Being--
as as such
the Son of God.

The "Serpent"
taking exception to the dire warning,
tempted Eve, countering:
"Ye shall not surely die . . ."
Has anyone noticed that this narrative
is the first lie?
Has anyone considered that
Eve, an immortal who lacked nothing
could only be tempted
because she desired more?

Eve, being deceived,
by a narrative,
 dismissed the warning and
bought into the lie
that she wouldn't surely die.
Inside her deception,
she ate the forbidden tree's toxic fruit
and then gave the fruit to Adam
who did also eat,
and so since that time,
from generation to generation
death has reigned over life,
and we have all come to assume,
that all must die,
as a matter of course,
as a matter of life,
because of Adam's transgression.

Few, if any,
have given it a second thought.

Christian Institutions generally teach
that the "Original Sin" of Adam,
although washed away by baptism
 is the why we all die;
that death, being inevitable,
is an unavoidable part of life,
that can't be overcome.
and that although the Bible,
the reported the Book of Life,
 which teaches the principles of Eternal Life
and distinguishes Life as a very real possibility 
dismisses the possibility of Immortality
Eternal Youth,
and instead limits life to a strictly spiritual sense,
instructing that
after the flesh dies,
we, being still conscious thereafter,
go either to heaven or hell
Where we live
spiritually, eternally.

Protestantism teaches that
by accepting Jesus as personal savior
we (our soul?) get a free get out of hell pass,
 and go to heaven after we die;
that regardless that Jesus said we won't die
if we believe in him,
and that Paul specifically wrote that
death is an enemy which may be overcome,
everyone is destined to die
until Jesus returns. 

 Do I now assume the role of the serpent?
the tempter
by challenging the notion
that we all must die a physical death,
That we are denied physical immortality
eternal youth,
because Adam ate off the forbidden tree
notwithstanding Biblical teachings to the contrary? 

It is written that Jesus said,
"I am the resurrection, and the life:
he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

And that if one keeps his sayings,  

he shall never see death (John 8:51); 

The Book of Job provides that if a man has with him 

"a messenger, an interpreter," 

he shall be delivered from going down to the pit, 

and shall return to the days of his youth (Job 33:23-25);

The Psalms point to perpetual youth (Psalm 103:5); 

So which is it?
Spiritual Life after physical death?
or eternal youth and physical immortality?

While many over the course of time
since the physical resurrection of Jesus
have believed
does anyone know of anyone
who has not aged and died?
Graveyards are filled with believers,
Why did they die?
Did Jesus and Paul not mean what they said?
Does the Bible not mean what it says? 
Is eternal, immortal life a physical thing?

What is Eternal Life?
How do we reconcile
what appears to be
a contradiction
between what the Book of Life teaches?
and what precedent demonstrates?