Man not supposed to live forever.

by searcher 33 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  agapa37

  What you all fail to understand is that God DID create man to live forever on a paradise earth. For you Bible readers it is right there in Genesis!

  Searcher posted this......Gen 3:22 And Jehovah God went on to say: “Here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad, and now in order that he may not put his hand out and actually take [fruit] also from the tree of life and eat and live to time indefinite,—” NWT

  What searcher forgot to post is the scriptures PRIOR to that one. Genesis 2:15-17......... " And Jehovah God proceeded to take the man and settle him in the garden of E´den to cultivate it and to take care of it. And Jehovah God also laid this command upon the man: "From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die."

  What does that imply? Common sense and the ability to read dictates, along with what the REST of the Bible says about this subject is that God created the earth for mankind as their home. He created them to Live on it forever. Read that verse, it tells us that if they did not eat from the tree ( obeying God ) they would have continued to live. It is right there!
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  searcher

  God created the earth for mankind as their home. He created them to Live on it forever.

  Mankind, not a man.
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  Awakened07

  He created them to Live on it forever. Read that verse, it tells us that if they did not eat from the tree ( obeying God ) they would have continued to live. It is right there!
  

  OK, I'll bite (but only because no one else has replied - I don't really care about this).

  I think we're starting to go in circles pretty fast here if we go down this path ('everyone' here has agreed with the above (quoted) statement at some point, since we've all been JWs, and some still are. So this is nothing new)

  So. Had they not eaten of the fruit of Knowledge, they'd have lived forever, as per the scripture you quoted. Yes, it's logical. However - if they were created to live forever from the start, then what was the purpose of the Tree of life? Remembering that God said to remove Adam and Eve before they could eat from it, or they would live forever, even in sin. In other words; the Tree of life would give eternal life. That's what the Tree of life does. But if they were already created to live forever from the start, then the Tree of life would have no function.

  It seems therefore, that one of two things must have been true:

  Either they would have been given permission from God to eat from the Tree of life and live forever after a period of time in which they had been tempted and had resisted temptation (but they were never told not to eat from that tree, so they wouldn't need a later permission, so this doesn't really work).

  Or they had been eating of the fruit of the Tree of life pretty much every day, and would have to continue doing so in order to live forever. After they sinned, they were cut off from it.

  But neither of those two I think is in accordance with JW teachings.
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  golf2

  Why are missing out on the beauty of life. No matter where we are in time, are you presently enjoying the beauty of life?
  
  
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