What does the Tree of Life mean to you?

Answer 1

Spiritual everlasting life. Jesus.

Answer 2

The Tree of Life was the second tree Adam was forbidden to eat from in the Garden of Eden.

My belief is that when God's kingdom reigns, we will all be allowed to eat from this tree and enjoy eternal life. The last chapter in Revelations talks about this actually.

Eden Restored
1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. 3 No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5 There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.

Answer 3

The tree of life was a tree Adam and Eve brought to earth with them. It sustained them with a connection to God which only they could have because of it's energy. After the Garden was over run and Adam decide to leave so there would be no more killing, he went to another garden but could not take the tree with him and his family. Those who took over the Garden were not able to benefit from the tree and after a year or so, they destroyed the tree.
Adam and Eve died because they no longer had the tree of life to sustain them any longer.
Symbolically the tree can mean the tree of life give by the Love of Christ. Jesus said I am the Vine and you are the branches. By me you bare fruit from the Love if you except through belief. If no you will not bear fruit and will be cut down and thrown into the fire. Jesus taught in metaphors.
Rev. TomCat

Answer 4

In my opinion Adam and Eve took a forbidden apple from a tree. They sinned and died.

Jesus would be the tree of life. If I believe in Jesus I will not die.

Answer 5

That's a very good question: I believe the tree of life is the Word of God, the written Word and the living Word...Jesus is the tree of life...The bible is the tree of life..Jesus did say " I have come that you may have life and may have it more abundantly"

Answer 6

As a Christian I see the Cross of Christ as the Tree of Life for me.

Answer 7

The tree of life is Christ.

Gen 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

All must put forth their hand and assimilate from (Christ the living Word) the tree of life to live forever.

Answer 8

Revelation 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
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# Ge 2.9, 3.24 Re 22.2, 14, 19
In Greek the word for tree here, as in 1•Pet. 2:24, means wood;
it is not the word usually used for tree. In the Bible the tree of
life always signifies Christ as the embodiment of all the riches
of God (Col. 2:9) for our food (Gen. 2:9; 3:22, 24; Rev. 22:2, 14,
19). Here it signifies the crucified (implied in the tree as a
piece of wood--1•Pet. 2:24) and resurrected (implied in the life
of God--John 11:25) Christ, who today is in the church, the
consummation of which will be the New Jerusalem, in which the
crucified and resurrected Christ will be the tree of life for the
nourishment of all God's redeemed people for eternity (22:2, 14).
God's original intention was that man should eat of the tree of
life (Gen. 2:9, 16). Because of the fall, the way to the tree of
life was closed to man (Gen. 3:22-24). Through the redemption of
Christ, the way by which man could touch the tree of life, which
is God Himself in Christ as life to man, was opened again (Heb.
10:19-20). But in the church's degradation, religion crept in with
its knowledge to distract the believers in Christ from eating Him
as the tree of life. Hence, the Lord promised to grant the
overcomers to eat of Himself as the tree of life in the Paradise
of God, as a reward. This is an incentive for them to leave
religion with its knowledge and return to the enjoyment of
Himself. This promise of the Lord restores the church to God's
original intention according to His economy. What the Lord wants
the overcomers to do is what the whole church should do in God's
economy. Because of the church's degradation, the Lord came to
call the overcomers to replace the church in the accomplishing of
God's economy.
The eating of the tree of life not only was God's original
intention concerning man but also will be the eternal issue of
God's redemption. All God's redeemed people will enjoy the tree of
life, which is Christ with all the divine riches as the redeemed's
eternal portion for eternity (Rev. 22:2, 14, 19). Because of
religion's distraction and the church's degradation, the Lord in
His wisdom made the enjoyment of Himself in the coming kingdom a
reward in order to encourage His believers to overcome religion's
distracting knowledge in teachings and return to the enjoyment of
Himself as the life supply in the church life today for the
accomplishing of God's economy.
Eating the tree of life, that is, enjoying Christ as our life
supply, should be the primary matter in the church life. The
content of the church life depends on the enjoyment of Christ. The
more we enjoy Him, the richer the content will be. But to enjoy
Christ requires us to love Him with the first love. If we leave
our first love toward the Lord, we will miss the enjoyment of
Christ and lose the testimony of Jesus; consequently, the
lampstand will be removed from us. These three things--loving the
Lord, enjoying the Lord, and being the testimony of the Lord--go
together.

Answer 9

Symbolical language for "passage" into eternity. Given to those preordained to be created into the image of God.

Answer 10

The source of everything. How life is constatnly growing and reaching for the sky.