Antionah’s query is actually a valid one: If, according to the earliest scriptural accounts, God prevented Adam and Eve in Eden from partaking of the fruit of the tree of life (and thereby prevented them from living in mortality forever), why would Alma and Amulek speak of the gospel plan as a means whereby men and women could live forever through Christ? Alma, of course, will explain that God did not desire our first parents to live forever in their fallen (unredeemed) condition, but rather made known a plan whereby they could be made ready, after a life of mortality, to enter through Christ into resurrected immortality.