What is The Tree of Life?

Answer 1

Isn't it amazing, Dee, the number of different interpretations you can get from the same phrase. The Tree of Life can be anything that's already been said to Ygdrassyl, the World Tree of the Vikings, from which Odin hung upside down and invented the 24 runes, or the version used by the Theosophists and Golden Dawn lodge of the early 20th century. Didn't see many of those mentioned, though.

Answer 2

There were two trees in the garden of Eden. One was the tree of life and the other the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The serpent told Eve that if she ate of that tree, she would be like God. knowing good and evil. once she ate the fruit, her disobedience caused Adam to sin as well. They were told not to eat of that tree. So Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden so they would not eat of the tree of life next. That would have prolonged their life of sin on this earth indefinitely. The tree of life is again mentioned in revelation 22 where we see this huge tree straddling the river of life and giving 12 crops of fruit per year. one every month. The leaves of the tree are healing for the nations. When we are in heaven, we will be able to eat off of that tree anytime and heal anything with it's leaves. And the curse that we are under because of Adam and Eve's sin will be gone. Hope that helps.

Answer 3

There are three Trees of Life listed in the Bible. One was placed in the middle of the Garden of Eden, in paradise, apparently pretty close to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Apparently it was destroyed in the Flood (but some might say that it was saved and placed in heaven). The next time we see it, it is in the middle of the paradise of God.

The third Tree of Life is the metaphore for true wisdom which is accepting the gospel of Christ. When you think about it, the actual, physical Tree of Life is basically the same thing.

To be a little more specific in answering your question, the general metaphore of the Tree of Life is the entire body of all who will live forever with God, and the main roots, trunk, and branch is Jesus Christ from which the rest of the branches derive their life from.

Answer 4

The Tree of Life was first seen in the Garden. Eating from the tree of life would give you eternal life. When man sinned, God put a guard so that fallen man would not eat of it and live forever in a corrupted state. When the earth is redeemed in Revelation, we will be give access to the Tree of Life.

Answer 5

NO NO NO!!! You all have it wrong! You are all talking about the two trees of good and evil. The Tree of Life is from the Book of Mormon. It was in a dream that Lehi had. It was a symbolical dream. He dreamed of a tree, and it had wonderful fruits on it. Leading up to it was a pole that everyone had to hold onto. This pole represented staying on the path of righteousness. The tree represented righteousness. On the way to the pole, many people fell away from the pole. This represented people turning away from and becoming too prideful and evil. The people that fell away would wander to a huge building. It had people partying and having lots of fun, but it was dirty and roudy fun. People were drinking and laughing at the people who were on the rod. This tower represented temptation for the people who were on the right path. They wanted to be righteous, but many of them could not resist the evil temptation. But eventually the tower collapsed, and fell into a red river of evil. It showed that good people will have joy and happiness in the end, while the evil will perish and be done away with. It is a very good symbolic story. E-mail me if you want to know more.

Answer 6

The Bible says that in the garden of Eden, “Jehovah God made to grow out of the ground . . . the tree of life.” The reason given for putting Adam out of the garden was so that he could “not put his hand out and actually take fruit also from the tree of life and eat and live”—yes, forever! After expelling Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden, Jehovah posted “the cherubs and the flaming blade of a sword that was turning itself continually to guard the way to the tree of life.”—Genesis 2:9; 3:22-24.

If Adam and Eve had been permitted to eat of that tree of life, what would that have meant for them? Why, the privilege of living forever in Paradise! One Bible scholar speculated: “The tree of life must have had some virtue by which the human frame was to be kept free from the decrepitude of age, or the decay that terminates in death.” He even claimed that “there was an herbal virtue in paradise capable of counteracting the effects” of aging. However, the Bible does not say that the tree of life in itself had life-giving qualities. Rather, that tree simply represented God’s guarantee of everlasting life to the one who would be allowed to eat its fruit.—Revelation 2:7.

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Answer 7

It was the second tree in the Garden of Eden that Adam and Eve wasn't supposed to eat from. God said that if they had eaten from this tree they would live forever.

Answer 8

The Tree of Life—or the fruit they bore— came to be associated with wisdom, knowledge, or hidden secrets.
They are mentioned in the Bible in the Garden of Eden.

Answer 9

I believe what the Tree of Life signified was an eternal fixed state of existence. I believe God drove Adam and Eve from the Garden before they could partake of it so that their fallen condition would not become a permanent fixed state and they would become unredeemable, as Lucifer had become when he rebelled and became Satan.

Answer 10

It depends, are you asking about the Tree of Knowledge in Chrisianity, or something else?