This thread is hard to follow like the other one by Bob Bobber, with many odd statements that are false or disconnected from the topic or don't answer the questions they purport to answer, but the claim that we no longer have access to the tree of life particularly caught my attention. It's not true any more, not for believers in Christ:
Remember how Yahweh stations the cherubim and the fiery ever-turning sword to guard the way back to the tree of life, once Adam and Eve were banished from the garden. The tree of life is now inaccessible; no humans have access to immortality, and the pursuit of immortality is futile.
But this is wrong. Faith in Jesus in itself gives us eternal life. But the tree of life is only inaccessible to fallen humanity while those of us who are saved by faith in Christ will eventually have access to it, because Christ's mission was to reverse the effects of the Fall (at least), and His sacrifice has paid the sin debt that kept us from it:
Rev. 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Rev. 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Sorry, shouldn't be answering you while you're suspended but I guess it will be here when you get back.
ABE: Kind of exciting to think of getting to see the "Paradise of God," which is another name for the Garden of Eden, since the tree of life is in the midst of that garden.
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