The Fall

[dingodile]

I think Bookcat gave you the link.
Anyway, I believe the Church teaches that man was destined for immortality had he not sinned. Best source is the Catechism on the Fall as others have pointed out,

It’s one thing to say that mankind is destined for immortality, another to say that Adam and Eve, two particular human beings, were meant to have never died. I’m just trying to wrap my mind around this.

 

[fhansen]

It’s one thing to say that mankind is destined for immortality, another to say that Adam and Eve, two particular human beings, were meant to have never died. I’m just trying to wrap my mind around this.

Is there really a difference?-either way we’re talking about immortality.

 

[Bookcat]

It’s one thing to say that mankind is destined for immortality, another to say that Adam and Eve, two particular human beings, were meant to have never died. I’m just trying to wrap my mind around this.

Remember we do not know what would have happened.

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Now…

Eventually we are meant to not die

…to rise in the resurrection --in a glorified state beyond our imagination.