2007-12-31 17:38:03 · 12 answers · asked by wiremu 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes Im not out there drinking because I quit the bottle and decided to research religion
2007-12-31 17:50:38 · update #1
I've been taught that men would have lived forever, that there would have been no death, and man would have lived in sin forever, and in order to prevent this, God drove Adam and Eve out of the garden.
Thank you for asking such good questions tonight. You're giving me something to do. I have a really bad cold, and my medicine keeps me so wired I can't sleep.
2007-12-31 17:42:27 · answer #1 · answered by No Shortage 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
But what if Adam had not sinned? What if he had not disobeyed God and he had been granted to eat of the tree of life? Where would he have enjoyed God’s gift of everlasting life? In heaven? No! God said nothing about Adam’s being taken to heaven. His work assignment was here on earth. The Bible explains that “Jehovah God made to grow out of the ground every tree desirable to one’s sight and good for food,” and it says: “Jehovah God proceeded to take the man and settle him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to take care of it.” (Genesis 2:9, 15)
2008-01-01 03:12:44 · answer #2 · answered by conundrum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey how come your not out celebrating the new year. Quit worrying about the trees there going to be fine.....go have a drink.
Happy new year.
2008-01-01 01:47:59 · answer #3 · answered by carpentershammerer 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He would have according to scripture lived forever.
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:
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There are two trees in the garden. These two trees have more than a literal meaning. We are told that The tree of knowledge of good and evil is forbidden.
The day Adam eats of it he will surely die.
The tree of life is also in the midst of the garden if they eat of it they will live forever.
These two trees are obviously more than trees.
What is the knowledge of good and evil?
Where could a man gain knowledge of good and evil?
We get our knowledge of good and evil from God.
The law that God sent down to Moses is the knowledge of good and evil.
Why would God's righteous law kill man?
Because man could not live up to God's righteousness.
It is also the reason there was a tree in the midst of the garden called the tree of life.
This is God's mercy.
This story Moses tells is of he two natures of God his righteousness and his mercy.
It is the story of man and his fall from God's glory and God's plan of salvation.
2008-01-01 01:45:53 · answer #4 · answered by djmantx 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Man would have lived forever as gods.
God positioned angels with a fiery sword to prevent that.
Genesis 3:22-24
"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 forever:
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
So he drove out the man, and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."
2008-01-01 01:45:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would never have repented and God's salvation would have been in vain. God doesn't do things that are vain.
2008-01-01 01:44:11 · answer #6 · answered by watertalk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
2008-01-01 01:43:05 · answer #7 · answered by GREGORIOUSITY 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyplace would be like China to the tenth degree. But I bet we could run around naked because there just aren't enough clothes for everybody.
2008-01-01 01:42:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Yaawwwwn"
2008-01-01 01:41:59 · answer #9 · answered by rookiejon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Question is...what would happen if you weren't so rude and inconsiderate?
2008-01-01 01:41:31 · answer #10 · answered by use 2 b lost 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋