Did Yahweh do us a favor by denying us eternal life?

[The Grand Nudger]

OFC -of course-.

I say god exists because that's part of your premise. If you referred to magic book for an answer as to why god made us mortal, you won't get one. Ipse dixit. It only has an answer for why god endeavored to keep us mortal. One of the many jealous voices inside of his head worried that man, having eaten from the tree of knowledge, would next eat from the tree of life , and thus become "like us".

Now, god did curse us, but not with mortality.

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14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring[a] and hers;
he will crush[b] your head,
and you will strike his heel.”

16 To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”

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TLDR version, "God" cursed "adam" with having to work for a living in order to take care of his nagging wife, cursed his wife to suffer tremendous pain and be subjugated, cursed the dirt, cursed a dragon to crawl, etc etc etc. He did this because he was angry that the mud man and rib woman did something he told them not to do.