And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 2: 8-9)
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2: 15-17)
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. (Genesis 3: 6-7)
Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. (Genesis 3: 22-24)
This topic came up yesterday and I have been giving it some thought. All purely speculative. Was there something in particular that was special about the tree? Did the fruit have some special quality unlike any other? Or was the tree simply put off limits and it was disobedience, not the fruit itself, that was the issue? Disobedience and sin is clearly the driver here but why was that tree off limits? Was it more desirable because it was truly special or was it desirable to the eye because it was forbidden?
Then there is the “other” tree, the Tree of Life. It appears here and then doesn’t appear again until Revelation (Rev 2:7; Rev 22: 2, 14, 19) It is not the tree that gives life, it is Christ. So what is up with that tree? Is it a literal tree? Is the fruit of that tree special or is what the tree represents that is special?
What is up with these two trees?
The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2: 15-17)
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. (Genesis 3: 6-7)
Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. (Genesis 3: 22-24)
This topic came up yesterday and I have been giving it some thought. All purely speculative. Was there something in particular that was special about the tree? Did the fruit have some special quality unlike any other? Or was the tree simply put off limits and it was disobedience, not the fruit itself, that was the issue? Disobedience and sin is clearly the driver here but why was that tree off limits? Was it more desirable because it was truly special or was it desirable to the eye because it was forbidden?
Then there is the “other” tree, the Tree of Life. It appears here and then doesn’t appear again until Revelation (Rev 2:7; Rev 22: 2, 14, 19) It is not the tree that gives life, it is Christ. So what is up with that tree? Is it a literal tree? Is the fruit of that tree special or is what the tree represents that is special?
What is up with these two trees?
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