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Here's something I've been wondering about recently since writing a study on sin and redemption in the Bible; I began with Gen 2-3 and ended with Rev 22.
Eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil just once made Adam and Eve sinful. But, would eating from the tree of life just once give eternal life?
God told Adam he could eat from any tree other than the one of the knowledge of good and evil; so Adam could have eaten from the tree of life. Once Adam and Eve sinned, they were banished from the garden so they couldn't eat from the tree of life.
If eating from the tree of life just once granted eternal life, then they must not have eaten from it before the fall. If they had eaten from it before eating from the tree of knowledge, would they have had eternal, sinful life?
And Rev 22 states the tree of life will bear fruit every month. Could it be that eating from the tree only grants life for a time (perhaps a month) and in heaven we'll have to regularly eat from it to have eternal life (sort of like the pool in Cocoon?
If so, that would explain why Adam and Eve could eat from the tree of life while in the garden, but were banished afterward. It would also seem to explain why God said if they ate from the tree of knowledge, they would surely die; he would banish them and cut them off from their source of eternal life.
Any thoughts?
"And the LORD God commanded the man, 'You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.'" (Gen 2:16-17, CSB)
"The LORD God said, 'Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, and also take from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.' So the LORD God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken." (Gen 3:22-23, CSB)
"On both sides of the river was the tree of life bearing 12 kinds of fruit, producing its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree are for healing the nations, and there will no longer be any curse." (Rev 22:2b-3a, CSB)
Eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil just once made Adam and Eve sinful. But, would eating from the tree of life just once give eternal life?
God told Adam he could eat from any tree other than the one of the knowledge of good and evil; so Adam could have eaten from the tree of life. Once Adam and Eve sinned, they were banished from the garden so they couldn't eat from the tree of life.
If eating from the tree of life just once granted eternal life, then they must not have eaten from it before the fall. If they had eaten from it before eating from the tree of knowledge, would they have had eternal, sinful life?
And Rev 22 states the tree of life will bear fruit every month. Could it be that eating from the tree only grants life for a time (perhaps a month) and in heaven we'll have to regularly eat from it to have eternal life (sort of like the pool in Cocoon?
If so, that would explain why Adam and Eve could eat from the tree of life while in the garden, but were banished afterward. It would also seem to explain why God said if they ate from the tree of knowledge, they would surely die; he would banish them and cut them off from their source of eternal life.
Any thoughts?
"And the LORD God commanded the man, 'You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.'" (Gen 2:16-17, CSB)
"The LORD God said, 'Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, and also take from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.' So the LORD God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken." (Gen 3:22-23, CSB)
"On both sides of the river was the tree of life bearing 12 kinds of fruit, producing its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree are for healing the nations, and there will no longer be any curse." (Rev 22:2b-3a, CSB)