Entranced....again!

I as stated before, I'm re-reading Stephanie Meyers' Twilight series in preparation for the release of Eclipse in the theaters. I love reading favorites over and over because I pick up on something different every time. Subsequently, different feelings tend to surface. For instance, the first time I read Twilight all I wanted was for Bella to be able to be with Edward fully by becoming a vampire. At the end of the book, when Edward asks "You're ready now, then?" I really wanted him to bite her and make her a vampire. I understood her love for him and how becoming a vampire was the only way to make her his equal. On this read, I found myself siding with Edward a little bit. I saw, through his love, that he wanted her to experience life, human life, even if that meant that he had to be careful in physically expressing his love for her. This train of thought/change of heart, began as I noticed Genesis 2:17, printed at the beginning of the book; "But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surly die." Keeping that passage in mind throughout my reading, I was less convinced that Bella was right. How can eternal death with Edward be better than eternal life with God? I may be going too deep here, but Edward continuously refers to himself as a monster, evil, hideous. I admire that Bella is able to look past that and see him for the loving, kind, beautiful creature that he is. When I first read the book, I thought that she was seeing his exquisite good looks, his intoxicating breath, his mesmerizing eyes. Now I understand that she sees past the monster to the humanness he struggles to hold on to. That's what she falls in love with and that is what Edward wants her to hold on to. He wants her to live human, not die to be with him. Even though she wouldn't cease to exist, her conversion to a vampire would take away her most human characteristic: her ability to die in this world to experience eternal life in the next. So is it better for Bella to be with the one she loves forever by "eating of the tree of knowledge"? Or, is she giving into the same temptation presented to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?