Hi,
But its still an extremely interesting coincidence that God doesn't have a problem with Adam eating of the tree of Life until after the fall!!! Again, lets think, why would this be so? If man was mortal from the beginning then God would always have had a fear of Adam eating from the tree of life. God would have told Adam not to eat of it just like the tree of knowledge of good and evil from the beginning!
We have to remember that the authors of Genesis, and the final editor, were not writing for a critical audience, they were not concerned if the story was consistent or not. Most pre-renaissance 'history' writing was like this.
We shouldn't read too much into inconsistencies in the Bible.
Brian.
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