Why was there a Tree of Life & a Tree of Knoledge of Good &Evil if we were meant to live forever?

Question

What's the purpose of the Tree of Life & the Tree of Knoledge of Good & Evil if we were meant to live forever in the first place?

Answer 1

Its just a story...Like the fountain of youth...it didnt really exist its just a story thats like a fairy tale. It's just one part of someones religious beliefs..its not real.

Answer 2

We were not meant to serve God just because there was no other choice. We must make that decision for ourselves. No one can make it for us. Not our parents nor our friends. We are meant to choose to serve him. If God had said not to eat from some other trees then it still would have been a sin but how would any later people(you and me for example) know the difference between right and wrong? Because they ate from this tree we can tell the difference between good and evil.
The tree of life- What do you suppose it looked like. I don't know how it looked in the garden but later it looked like a cross. How ironic that a tree which most people would call ugly is called beautiful now. It is similar to our lives. Was mother Theresa's life ugly or beautiful? Did she see the same as you or different?

Answer 3

there was a tree of knowledge of good and evil because there was good and evil. you can see the genesis1;1 is virtually hundreds/thousands of years before the event in verse 2. it later explains it in isiah where lucifer turned evil and there was a war between the heavens and the evils.
the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil are the same thing.
God told adam and eve if the ate a fruit from this tree they would die. and so we do know. we die when we grow old we were supposed to live longer. we were supposed to be innocent and long lived.
To get a more explict answer, God will have to answer because no one understands except him. u just have to make sure u work hard to get to heaven so u can hear him tell us all.

Answer 4

The story of "the tree of life" is a theme that is common to most all of the worlds religions. "This archetype is universal, found in the earliest of religious texts: the Rg Veda and the Upanisads of Ancient India. In Judeo-Christian traditions also, the same pairing is found in the description of the garden of Eden." It is a metaphor used to depict the mortality of the human condition, and the quest for immortality.

Some theories suggest that these ancient myths were an attempt by early religions to explain why God would fail to give man immortality.

Answer 5

a revolving sword was set in motion so that adam and eve could not approach the Tree of Life

Only the Tree of Knowledge was forbidden; Adam could have eaten from the Tree of Life all along....he would have never died.


The Tree of Life is all inclusive

The Tree of Life shelters under its branches every living thing

plant or animal


Hopefully the sheer magnitude of such an idea will burst the limits of your reality.....causing you to transcend normal thought processess

the literal translation of the stories of adam and eve and the garden of eden in proportion to humankind is definitely a disservice

there are comparisons

there are projections

there are simplistic interpretations

all of which put us on a track that is distorted with images and wrongminded calculations



Perspective:

needed an altered frame of reference from the start

Answer 6

I have no basis for this answer and may be totally off, but here is my shot at it: the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil came from Satan. Because Satan existed, that had to be there. It's kind of like there would be no reason to have any Savior if Satan wasn't here. So, God wanted us to live forever, but the reality is that evil did exist and always has existed. It wasn't there because God wanted us to die or wanted us to invite sin into our lives; it was just a reality of this world. Now it is up to us to choose to follow God and abandon evil.

Answer 7

In the garden of Eden, God employed two trees for symbolic purposes: “the tree of life,” simply represented God’s guarantee of everlasting life to the one who would be allowed to eat its fruit.—Revelation 2:7.

“The tree of the knowledge of good and bad.” This tree was, in effect, symbolic of the boundary—the line of demarcation—or the limit of man’s proper domain.

The sin that Adam and Eve committed was an attack on God’s sovereignty. So, that why we are here today facing all this corruption in the world due to their error of disobedience.

But know THIS, that one day God will put an end to it: and we will be able to life forever: Rev. 21: 3,4

Answer 8

Interesting Question! I want to say Adam and Eve messed that up when they brought sin into the garden but then when you think about it they wasn't suppose to eat of that tree any way and they both are dead right? So it had to all be about God's plan teaching us about temptation. The bible do say it is appointed by all men to die, so we were never expected to live forever on earth.

Answer 9

I personally think that humans were not created to just praise him. He already had supernatural beings to do that. I believe the tree was placed there for obedience. He gave Adam and Eve the choice to obey him. Worship happens in many forms and obiedience is one of them. We as humans were given the power to choose to obey or not to obey. Adam and Eve were ment to live forever but they chose to dissobey and and thier punishment was not only working in the dust and painful child birth, but death...not right away but death did come to them.

Answer 10

Don't think of trees as actual trees. Think of trees as men, backbone, the trunk of a men. Satan beguiled 1/3 of the children of God.

Answer 11

It was to give man (and woman) a choice. In giving man freedom, it gave him responsibility and choice, but also the option of death.

In the end God was right and Satan told a half truth, because man ended up dying, but saw his state in being a god of his own domain, knowing that he had made a bad decision in choosing to live without God.