This condition is present already in the physical life of the person who realizes Truth or lives in God's grace, and it will continue, unabated, in the hereafter. Some Taoist scriptures, on the other hand, promote the ideal of physical immorality. The eternal youth of the Taoist Immortals is a consequence of their life being totally at one with the Tao of nature. Likewise, the doctrine of the resurrection is interpreted by some Christians, Jews, and Muslims as requiring the reconstitution of the dead in their physical bodies, to dwell forever on this earth. We note that Buddhist scriptures generally avoid speaking of the state of blessedness as eternal life.
Buddhist teaching views the desire for life as a kind of grasping, and hence a fetter to liberation.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Job 19.25-26, p. 587. Rig Veda 9.113.8-11, p. 354. Being in accord with Tao, he is everlasting. Te Ching 16 Eternity does not exist apart from true love.