Hey,Daddy-O, and may you have peace!
Indeed, spirit creatures DO eat. I have seen it with my own 'eyes'. However, what THEY eat is disseminated within them. It does not 'pass through and empty out into the sewer', okay?
So, a spirit being that eats from the Tree of Life, will gain MORE life... and 'live' to time indefinite. Same thing with us. However, one that eats from the Tree of Knowledge can no LONGER eat from the Tree of Life, and thus dies... eventually.
Adam and Eve died only in the physical flesh. Their spirits have yet to be destroyed. Satan and Gog, too, have yet to be destroyed. But the SPIRITS of these had to be somewhat 'weakened' so that they CAN be destroyed. If any of them were allowed to go back and eat... from the Tree of Life... they would again eat, and live to time indefinite. For eating from one tree cancels out the affects of the other. Death cancels out life; Life cancels out death.
That is the very reason WHY Satan misleads Gog and Magog to come against the 'beloved City', New Jerusalem, where the Tree of Life, my Lord, is 'planted'. If they can GET to that Tree... and eat... they will live FOREVER. My Father is NOT going to let that occur. His 'fire' destroys them first, and Satan is cast INTO the 'lake' of that fire.
Daddy-O, I am not trying to mislead you. I think you might know me a bit better than that. I am simply relating to you and others what has been related to me. Let go of your chagrin for a moment and look this stuff up. I COULD always include scriptures and verses, but I am not always directed to. Why? So that you will LEARN... to 'come to [him], my Lord, and ask HIM... rather than rely on the Law written on stone tablets. You have a question? All you need do is ask him. But you have to do it in faith, out of a CLEAN heart, and anger and contentious render a heart 'unclean'. They are 'works of the flesh', not 'fruits of the spirit'.
Let the anger go, Daddy-O, and then simply ask. And LISTEN.
I bid you peace,
Your servant (to time indefinite, even if you keep being mean), and a slave of Christ,
SJ