"And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, as well as the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" (Genesis 1:9 RcV - Recovery Version The Holy Bible Recovery Version)
In the Garden in Genesis there were two significant trees -
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and
the tree of life.
Some people say that the tree of life simply represented human immortality. This, I submit, is superficial. Adam had no reason to die other than for the cause of eating of the tree of the knowledgeof good and evil. He was created with an immortal life. If so then what could the tree of life signify?
The tree of life signified the life of God. And to eat of the tree of life was for God to dispense His own uncreated divine life into man to produce a man who was united and mingled with God.
Jesus Christ in the New Testament is the genuine man who is at once the human life and the divine life united, blended, mingled, and incorporated together. Therefore Christ really represents what God intended by human being.
Adam never partook of this tree of life but was excluded from doing so.
This is a theological rather than a scientific study. (Though I have been persuaded of the historical authenticity of the account).
Can anyone see how the tree of life represents God imparting Himself into man's life to produce a union of God and man?
Discussion anyone?
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