text: As I read Paul in Romans, in his zeal to elevate the role of Christ to a sort of 'myth status'' as the source of 'life' and Grace, Paul goes back to a general impression of Genesis without checking what it actually said.
  
  The essential error is that he says 'death is caused by sin'.
  In our present English translations, what it says is that 'Adam' was created with death as an expectation. The myth writers knew that much.
  
  To 'prevent' death, Adam would have had to eat -- and keep eating, presumably -- of the 'tree of life'. The 'sin' did not cause death -- it just got people expelled from the garden so they would have no access to the magic tree of life.