Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"
Two things strike me as interesting here. First, only now does God seem concerned with man eating from the tree of life. He did not forbid man from eating of the tree of life before, only from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil did He forbid them. Does this mean neither of them hadn't eaten from the tree of life before?
Second, let's say they had eaten from the tree of life before. What changed? Did the something about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil change the affect of the tree of life? Since eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is how sin entered the world, did eating from the tree of life keep them immortal before sin? Or were they already immortal, and eating from the tree of life would have reversed the consequence of sin (death)?
Something to ask God when I get the chance...
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