Something I learned just recently

[Guest Shilo]

What was in the Garden of Eden?

Genesis Chapter 2:9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil

Adam was not in the Garden of Eden when God created him God put him there after...

Genesis Chapter 2:8 And the Lord God planted a garden eatward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis Chapter 2:15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Now the next 2 verse of that same chapter God is commanding Adam of which tree that he can eat from...

Genesis Chapter 2:16-17 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest therof thou shalt surely die.

So of every tree in the Garden of Eden including the tree of life except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, man was allowed to eat.

Eve wasn't even created at this point until after all of this

Genesis Chapter 2:18 An the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

So now Eve will be with Adam in the Garden of Eden.

We all know the story of how satan had deceived Eve into eating the fruit so I won't go into that part. But here is the reason God kicked Adam and Eve out of the Garden.....I have already told you that Adam and Eve could eat from every tree including the tree of life but not of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil....After Adam and Eve ate of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they now had sin in their bodies...they were at this point dying slowly as we all are in our lives...

But what would have happened if they were to eat from the tree of life?

This is the reason that God kicked them out of the garden of Eden

Genesis Chapter 3:22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know of good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever;

So if Adam and Eve would have taken from the tree of life and have eaten the fruit they would have lived for ever but with the sin in there bodies so this is what God did,

Genesis Chapter 3:23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

Because of the sin from the eating of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil man was cursed to till the ground for his food.

Genesis Chapter 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the seat of the garden of Eden cherubim, and a flaming lsword which tuned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

God did not want any man to enter into the garden of Eden ever again for the tree of life was what God was protecting...

Any comments?

[Guest Calamity]

I heard a sermon on that subject, a while back. I think it was mentioned in another thread here somewhere. He said that if they'd eaten from the Tree of Life, that they'd lived forever in the state of sin, which would have been a mess, so God put them out and guarded it. I never thought about them eating from it before their fall, though.

[Guest Shilo]

any others?

[angels4u]

Adam and Eve learned by the hard way the what their disobedience brought them.

They could discern evil and good.

If they had eaten from the tree of life they would live forever in bodies subject to sickness ,degeneration and infirmity.

Thus is was because of Gods mercy that prevented them to return to Eden.

[CWJ]

If they had eaten of it....then a BIG explosion!

[angels4u]

sorry, I don't get it... bi explosion of what?

[WayneB]

any others?

Like Calamity, I read it in another post and thought it made a lot of sense. Once they ate of the Tree of Knowledge, sin entered in to the human race through their disobedience. God removed them from the garden before they ate from the Tree of Life and their sin became part of their eternal nature. Mmmm... I can see it. From what I read, it seems that most of us see the possibility.

Blessings,

Wayne

[Adstar]

Shilo I agree with most of what you have said. But please clarify something for me. Do you think that if adam and eve ate from the tree of life once then they would have eternal life? It seems to me that is your thinking. That all one has to do is eat from the tree of life once and one will never die?

Could it be that that the fruit of the tree of life must be ate regularly to maintain eternal life? It seems to me that adam would have eaten from the tree of life and i'm sure eve would have also because they where free to do so. This leads me to think that the effect of eating from the tree of life will wear off if one stops eating from it? What do you think?

All Praise the Ancient of Days

[Guest Calamity]

If they ate from the Tree of Life before the fall, then they were sinless when they ate of it, freely at will. After the fall, it seems, from what the Bible says, that if they ate of it again, they'd live forever like that - in sin. I don't know.... Sounded sort of like if they ate from it once more, they'd live forever in the sin state, but I don't have that verse in front of me right now... I think what wore off, was their sinlessness, but again, I don't know.

[RGR]

Shilo I agree with most of what you have said. But please clarify something for me. Do you think that if adam and eve ate from the tree of life once then they would have eternal life? It seems to me that is your thinking. That all one has to do is eat from the tree of life once and one will never die?

Could it be that that the fruit of the tree of life must be ate regularly to maintain eternal life? It seems to me that adam would have eaten from the tree of life and i'm sure eve would have also because they where free to do so. This leads me to think that the effect of eating from the tree of life will wear off if one stops eating from it? What do you think?

All Praise the Ancient of Days

If I understood what you were saying, you meant in how that like Jesus is our Tree of Life. We must keep going to Him and eating of His word to stay alive. I've never heard that theory before, but it does seem, at the very least, possible.