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For those who take the creation narrative literally: If there was no physical death before the fall of humanity, what was the purpose of the tree of life? Was it necessary?
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Or the Garden of Eden for that matter. |
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Yeah, that's true. In the popular literal interpretation, it would be difficult for me to conceive of a need for well-defined boundaries in which Adam and Eve would be commanded to tend. I suppose the tree of life lends itself to my thought first because God is so explicit about its life-sustaining properties.
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It is for the Adam and Eve. They eat the fruit so they do not die. |
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There was already death? And the tree was intended to keep it at bay?
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If they were created to be eternal and death was not even in the picture, then why did they need to eat from the tree? The mere existence of the tree implies that death is possible. |
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Reps: 219,801,598,516,757 (power: 219,801,598,521) | | Originally Posted by Willtor For those who take the creation narrative literally: If there was no physical death before the fall of humanity, what was the purpose of the tree of life? Was it necessary?
Of course it was necessary, God doesn't play around with trivial matters.
The tree of life confirms the grace of God to Adam and Eve - thats just my lucky guess of course, because the bible does not actually make a clear statement for the why.
A study of the intricate details of the original hebrew would shed light on the topic, or perhaps you could just research commentaries on Gen 2 if you really want the answer.
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Reps: 44,404,246,110,554,912 (power: 44,404,246,110,568) | | | 1. The Garden is not the Heaven.
2. The Garden is created for human
3. Adam and Eve are in charge of the Garden.
4. Adam and Eve live with the tree of life. We should assume that they ate the fruit.
5. After the Sin, human can not reach to the tree of life any more, and started to die physically.
6. We will see the tree of life again in the Heaven
7. There was one tree of life in the Garden
8. There may be (should be) more trees of life in the Heaven.
So, when God makes the Garden, why does He put only ONE in that special place (temporarily)? | | |
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