They had permission to eat from every tree in the Garden except for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Obviously, the angels were posted at the entrance to the Garden in order to prevent Adam and Eve from CONTINUING to eat from the tree of life. Which, btw, shows that merely eating from such tree only once would not result in them having everlasting life. It's obvious that Adam and Eve were created in such a way that they would need to regularly eat from the tree of life in order to keep on living. -- Schizm.I'm not questioning about what permission they had, I'm questioning this:Where in the Bible does it say that?--undercover.
Obviously, the angels were posted at the entrance to the Garden in order to prevent Adam and Eve from CONTINUING to eat from the tree of life. Which, btw, shows that merely eating from such tree only once would not result in them having everlasting life. It's obvious that Adam and Eve were created in such a way that they would need to regularly eat from the tree of life in order to keep on living.Where do you get that from? Nothing in the account indicates that, so how do you reckon that?
I assume that you're asking the reason for which I believe that Adam & Eve had already been partaking of the tree of life. It would be unreasonable to think that they ate of all the other trees, but then neglected to eat of a tree that had the distinction of being called the "tree of LIFE". Too, the fact that the tree of life was located, not on the outskirts of the garden but right in the very middle of the garden, made it impossible to be overlooked.
And so WHY was it called the "tree of LIFE"? There's no question but what Adam NEEDED the fruit from this tree in order to continue living and not die. This is proven by the very fact that after he was cut off from having access to this "tree of life" he eventually died. Stop and think: If, as some suppose, eating from the tree of life just ONE time would have given Adam eternal life, then it would've been senseless for God to have barred Adam from being able to have further access to that tree. Well, surely both Adam and Eve had already eaten from that tree repeatedly. But in spite of having done so, they eventually died--which suggests that there was a need to REGULARLY injest the life-sustaining nutrients which were unique to that particular tree's fruit.
Yes, the wages for Adam's sin was death, but the WAY in which his death actually came about was by means of him no longer being allowed to get his hands on the life-sustaining nutrients that could be gotten ONLY from the fruit of the tree of LIFE. This is the reason I said: "It's obvious that Adam and Eve were created in such a way that they would need to regularly eat from the tree of life in order to keep living."
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