What if Adam ate from the tree of Life

[Messy]

Instead of the other tree. I think if he had done that, he would have known God. This is eternal life, that they might know you. Then he would have known God´s love and love Him with all his heart and never eaten from the other tree, because then he would have become like Jesus, the second Adam, who didn´t sin, because He knew the Father and loved Him.

 

[James-49]

Instead of the other tree. I think if he had done that, he would have known God. This is eternal life, that they might know you. Then he would have known God´s love and love Him with all his heart and never eaten from the other tree, because then he would have become like Jesus, the second Adam, who didn´t sin, because He knew the Father and loved Him.

Did Adam know there was a tree of Life in the garden? Scripture records God told him of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but doesn't record that God told him of the tree of Life.

But I think your reasoning is sound if Adam ate of the tree of Life first.

 

[KNOWLEDGE BOMB]

1. All the elect(will) eat from the tree of Life yet we do not become like (equal) to Jesus Christ....ever! Rev 22:14

 

[x141]

Instead of the other tree. I think if he had done that, he would have known God. This is eternal life, that they might know you. Then he would have known God´s love and love Him with all his heart and never eaten from the other tree, because then he would have become like Jesus, the second Adam, who didn´t sin, because He knew the Father and loved Him.

In a way this is absolutely true, but it would circumvent the process of finding where this tree was, which Adam had yet no understanding of. These are all pictures of truth that open in myriads of ways, and relate to us, and this process in us, a process continually happening in everybody.

Consider the two trees, one you live forever, the other you die, both in the midst.

For the man, the tree in the midst was the tree of life, for the woman it was the tree of knowledge. This plays out in the first and the second helpmeets, the 1st feminine, the 2nd masculine, but this is just a tag, because there is an abundance of wealth in this, when it comes to us waking this eternal life out, or the Word become flesh in us.

 

[hlaltimus]

The "Tree of life" did not impart either a conscious or physical life to Adam, something that he, Adam, was already in the possession of. Rather, the Tree of life imparted a quality to this possession of life, namely, immutability of state. According to this reasoning, if Adam had partaken of the Tree of life while in a state of sin and guilt, he would have thereby been properly, forever, and immutably locked into that state of sin and guilt, a horrid and supremely foolish choice made by Lucifer and his misguided rebel angels. That is why the Tree of life is in paradise of the third heavens. Only when a believer is fully or perfectly finished in his or her holiness of righteousness, then and only then may they partake of this tree, for then an immutable status would eternally work in their favor rather than to their eternal woe. God was not being stingy by forbidding the man and woman to taste of this fruit...exactly the opposite. He was being incomprehensibly wise and could not have done them a greater favor.

 

[parousia70]

The "Tree of life" did not impart either a conscious or physical life to Adam, something that he, Adam, was already in the possession of. Rather, the Tree of life imparted a quality to this possession of life, namely, immutability of state. According to this reasoning, if Adam had partaken of the Tree of life while in a state of sin and guilt, he would have thereby been properly, forever, and immutably locked into that state of sin and guilt, a horrid and supremely foolish choice made by Lucifer and his misguided rebel angels.

Are you saying that if Adam and Eve had eaten from the tree of life prior to eating from the tree of knowledge, the knowledge tree would have had no adverse effects on them? since the tree of life would have previously imparted an immutability to their perfect sinless state??

 

[parousia70]

Did Adam know there was a tree of Life in the garden? Scripture records God told him of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but doesn't record that God told him of the tree of Life.

Genesis 2:9,16
9 And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

God told Adam he could FREELY EAT of "Every tree", which must include the tree of life, for it was also "there in the midst of the garden".

 

[parousia70]

if Adam had partaken of the Tree of life while in a state of sin and guilt, he would have thereby been properly, forever, and immutably locked into that state of sin and guilt,

Isn't Adam presently Locked into that state of sin and guilt forever anyway?

 

[parousia70]

1. All the elect(will) eat from the tree of Life yet we do not become like (equal) to Jesus Christ....ever! Rev 22:14

However "Like" doesn't necessarily mean "equal to", otherwise John would not have said this:

Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. (1John 3:2)

 

[x141]

Knowledge does not grow on a tree no more than eternal life does.

 

[GoldenKingGaze]

If Adam ate from the tree of life before sinning, he would probably have been trusted and never would have sinned.

If after sinning, he ate from the tree of life, he would have continually gotten worse for thousands of years. Or maybe he would have found time to repent under the load of work and by God's works for him and his wife. We don't know if Adam is in paradise or Hell.