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Originally Posted by ndigila
The physical death ensures that the spiritual death wouldn't last forever.
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If Adam ate the tree of life, he could not have died physically so his fallen state could not have been rescued? That does mean that a mere tree had power to perpetuate life, physical or otherwise, beyond the control of God?
Personally I think the reason for chasing the couple from the garden of Eden to where they were created from was misunderstood by the writer of Genesis.
To me, so I think, the tree of life was meant as a privileged meal only allowed to a holy sinless being. It's eating after sin could equal accessing heavenly treasures that would simply negate the purpose of its specialty. I dont think it had an inherent capability to give whatever life, physical or spiritual, by itself apart from God.