The Tree of Life

Hello, redhotpogo. Well, I know many people believe it was called "the tree of knowledge", but in reality it was called "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil". He wanted them to eat from the tree of life. He told them that they could eat from it. "And YAHVAH Mighty One commanded Adam, saying, 'You may eat food from every tree in the garden, but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not eat, because in the day you eat from it, you will surely die." Anyway, to get back to your question... They never ate from it because they were only in the garden for one day. He was formed on the seventh day, and he sinned the same day he was formed. The garden was a place of pleasure, and he was to protect it and work it. Adam was formed innocent, but not immortal. He only knew truth, and didnt know either good or evil...what was appealing about the tree when Eve was tricked, was the want to have the ability to "know" both good and evil. It was the ability to "know" the things GOD knows, that was what was really appealing. I hope that this made some difference.

What a bunch of crap! Not even in the same class as Stories from the Brother's Grimm. The Grimm Bros at least advertized their stories as fairy tales. There are many examples of Great Fairy Tales! The Three Little Pigs, for example. In this story the Big Bad Wolf comes at night and blows down the house of one of the 3 little pigs. This is recommended reading for preschoolers, but even at that age they don't take it for the truth!

I am not sure about it. But I think that reason that it didnt seem appealing is maybe because the serpent didnt pursued them to eat from it. He knew what would happen if they ate the from the tree of life. And the Tree of life would give them the knowledge not only to what many things, but also to what the devils motives were.

Why were these things on trees in the first place? God coulda just put it anywhere, did anything, etc. Plus he already knew they were gonna be tricked into eating the apple, because he supposedly knows all. So this stuff just gets confusing for me. There's a Tree of Life movie I've been wanting to see though.

Hi there, This is a good discussion but before I put my points. Are you really know these verses or just read it for the sake of discussion.... Anyway here is my idea about your question: Yes your partly correct about the tree of knowledge and tree of life both are not really appealing or just like a normal tree. Unlike the other tree that they eat - it was very decieving in the eays, beautiful and look like tasty to eat...

The Tree of Life reappears in Revelation, which makes it clear that it is picture of Christ Himself. If we eat of Christ, we keep eating of Him. Similarly, to eat and live for ever, Adam and Eve would expect to keep eating of the Tree of Life; though, as Matthew Henry points out, that tree did not, of itself, have the power to give life, but their being allowed to continue eating of it might have given them the idea that God would be obligated to keep them alive. Eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was a "sacrament" of rebellion. It was saying to God, "We are going to know good and know evil, thoroughly knowing both"; it wasn't just knowing the difference, but knowing both by participation. Luther (and Matthew Henry follows him) suggested that Genesis 3:22 was spoken in mockery. I think Luther's right, because God didn't know evil in the way his creatures now did (Indeed, it was only when He was made sin for us that He fully came to know evil). Further support comes from the observation that God doesn't finish His sentence with words, as you would expect, but with a wordless, metaphorical kick up the backside, throwing man out of the garden. "You think you can defeat my sentence by going and eating from the Tree of Life? You can forget that one," (I'm putting words into His mouth - He didn't say that, of course) Wham! OUT!!!

Perhaps knowledge had little relevance in the primitive era. Hunger and shelter were the needs of the humans.In their craving for the fruit which appeared quite delicious man must have failed to seek the TREE of knowledge.

Maybe the did eat from it. But the effects of it (life) changed after they ate from the tree they were not supposed to eat from. Adam lived to be 930 years old. Gen.5:5. Because they were also told if they ate from the tree of knowledge they would die. Gen.3:3.

I am a novice about the bible but I think that it has a lot of meaning and interpretation. It is just a willful disobedience on the part of the created Adam and Eve. Instead of obeying what God had said, they chose to eat what has been forbidden. I think that the tree of life is also there all the time but it was not told them. Even if they had been there much, they would have not eaten that fruit because nobody will tempt them to do so. It is easy to eat something that has been told us not to eat than to eat what has not been said. Anyway, blessings to you.

Maybe it was because they weren't told they couldn't. Sometimes its the things we are told we can't have that we want the most.

That story is only a myth for which could be a hidden meaning. To think that it really happened is absurd.

Yeah, there's plenty of questions that keep popping up when we take a literalist view of these stories, isn't there? Here's my take on the situation: Have you ever been to a tropical climate on holidays for a couple of weeks when you've spent most of your life or grew up in a temperate or colder climate? Or maybe you're already in the tropics & can relate to this. When you're there & everything's perfect, you really don't feel like doing a darn thing! So if there was a fruit tree close & handy with some pretty ordinary fruit on it, you'd just be happy with that, over going for a five minute stroll to the other side of the garden & getting the really good stuff! I figure they just did what Huckleberry Finn felt like in Mark Twain's classic & just did whichever came handiest at the time. The church also has a take on all the "what if's". If they just ate from the tree of knowledge, then they'd live forever, wouldn't bother with having children or doing anything we'd regard as "exciting" at all... end result": we'd be buggered! If they ate from the tree of life after the tree of knowledge, then they'd live forever in their misery & as a result, we'd be even more buggered today. Same thing, more or less, if it were the other way around. And if they did nothing at all, they'd still have it eating away at their collective conciousnesses & today we'd just be in agony.

Even I can not phantom the idea that Adam and Eve were tempted to eat the forbidden fruit. How I wish to have a time travel to know the real reason.