The key to everlasting life was repentance of sins.
Adamu or Adapa, we are told, received from his divine father the gift of wisdom,' but not that of everlasting life.
From the standpoint of the Pharisees who championed the hope of everlasting life and believed in the existence of angels, through whom God could communicate with men, they were infidels.
Paul explains these formulas as being equivalent to " into the death of Christ Jesus," as if the faithful were in the rite raised from death into everlasting life.
