Originally posted by jmdewey60
No provision was made, at creation, to deal with death, as far as what happens to your soul.
Man was made to be a living being that was meant to live forever.
It was not God's plan for man to die, even though He knew it was a possibility.

I would have to disagree, man was not created in a state that would live forever, or man would never have been kicked out the garden in the first
place. People wrongly think the
only reason Adam and Eve were kicked out the garden of eden was an act of punishment for eating of the tree of
knowledge. While this was part of the reason, the main reason is stated in the book of Genesis.....
GENESIS 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also
of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:
23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way
of the tree of life.
After eating of the tree of knowledge, Adam and Eve were kicked out to prevent them from eating of the tree of life also, and living forever,
therefore they must have not already been in a state that could live forever if they needed to eat of this fruit to do so. When God said if you eat of
the tree of knowledge you shall surely die, he didn't mean that it would be this fruit that would kill him, but the results of his actions would
prevent him from eating of the tree of life that would allow him to escape death.
Thanks to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and his atonement for all or sins, eternal life is once again on offer.
1CORINTHIANS 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
firstfruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.