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

[Greatest I am]

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.

Nicely put.

I see having to work for a living as a good thing. 

Like the Jews, Gnostic Christians like me think of Eden as where man was elevated, not where he fell.

A & E, to us, graduated from childhood to adulthood, so getting to work is our reward, not our penalty. Not to mentioned that we gained the knowledge of reproduction and could now breed.

Nice because otherwise, if you follow the story line, none of us would be here.

Christianity reversed the moral of the story when they usurped the god of the Jews.

Regards
DL

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I think endless health and youth and zest for life, coupled with an off switch when needed, wouldn't be bad.

I don't think a system that allows for us to live forever would come with such a switch.

You want your cake and eat it too, as they say, but your way is the only way I would accept eternal life as well.

Regards
DL

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

No.

Yes.

Nice argument eh?

Regards
DL