Hi everyone, a teaching just came to me- I was doing a study on Adam and Eve. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had access to the tree of life and thus could live forever, it was God's original intent for man to live forever! Death only entered the world because of sin. I was also doing a study on judgement day. I believe one of the purposes of judgement day is to restore man to God's original intent, time will end at judgement day and there will only be eternity, in heaven or hell. Once we get to heaven we will then live forever, like God's intention for Adam and Eve.
I believe we are creatures of time. As such, time is our eternal environment, though God appears to be "before time." Still, God operates within time on our behalf. We should not think we can understand "timelessness," since that belongs to God alone, who is before time.
I agree that Man could've partaken of the Tree of Life and lived forever. Why did Adam and Eve choose to consider that only after trespassing into territory that God forbade them from?
I suspect it was because they could not bear the idea of living forever without considering Satan's temptation, which was the idea of being one's own God, able to make independent decisions, completely separate from God's will.
From God's point of view, He may have wanted mankind to choose at the same time either for the Tree of Life or for the Tree of Knowledge. That would determine that it would not result like the angels, who started out with God and then defected. If mankind chose for God 1st, then later they would not defect.
As it is, Man defected, and could not partake of Eternal Life apart from redemption. As a result, part of mankind went the way of redemption, and the other part of mankind choose to continue down the path of independence from God. God's word cannot fail, and so, He had to redeem Man and ultimately achieve success with some of mankind.
It's my theory for now. I don't know to what degree we can see into God's thinking?
