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If he wanted to, he could had just put the cherubim and a flaming sword around both the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil at the beginning. Or God can just put up a wall or something but he didn’t do it. Why?

If he wanted to, he could had just put the cherubim and a flaming sword around both the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil at the beginning. Or God can just put up a wall or something but he didn’t do it. Why?

If he wanted to, he could had just put the cherubim and a flaming sword around both the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil at the beginning. Or God can just put up a wall or something but he didn’t do it. Why?

Also, what brand of fertilizer was used on the Tree of Life, and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil?
Did Adam have to rake the leaves of the Tree of Life?
What happened to the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil that would have fallen off to the ground, would other animals have eaten the fruit?

Why did Adam and Eve really get kicked out of the Garden of Eden?
“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”
What is really going on here?
1) Man has become as one of US
2) Man now knows GOOD and EVIL
3) And now LEST lest
  LEST – Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
–conjunction
1. for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution): He kept his notes by his side lest faulty memory lead him astray.
2. that (used after words expressing fear, danger, etc.): There was danger lest the plan become known.
Man Had Gained the knowledge of Good and EVIL
DO NOT ALLOW MAN TO GET TO THE TREE OF LIFE – BECAUSE HE WOULD LIVE FOREVER.
KNOWLEDGE of GOOD & EVIL (as the Lord)
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LIVE FOREVER
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DO THE MATH

Why do we always look back to “the good old days” – Why always yearn for a simpler life – look for more space, a view with trees and green fields. What would we do differently if we had another chance?
What if Adam and Eve were not the first time God tried to get it right?
Well, I suppose after the floods of Noah’s time – the world was a much greener place. Those few that survived probably thought of all the technology they lost. Should they stay happy with their new garden? as God intended? – or start the path to distruction all over again?
What symbolism is the snake and the apple traditionally – and why is there a computer brand with an apple logo?

so lets say there was a garden of eden. if i was to get into heaven and eat the forbidden fruit, i would be cast out of the garden like adam and eve right? so i could just keep going back to earth and have eternal life.

The Serpent asked:
“Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?” (3:2) The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. (3:3) “But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, ‘You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death.” (3:4) Then the serpent said to the woman, “No! You will not die! (3:5) “God knows in fact that on the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil.” What a remarkable statement! “Your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil.” The Serpent directly contradicts Yahweh. Obviously, one of them has to be lying. Which one, do you suppose? And, if the serpent speaks true, wouldn’t you wish to eat of the magic fruit? Wouldn’t it be a good thing, to become “like gods, knowing good and evil”? Or is it preferable to remain in ignorance?
(Gen. 3:6) The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was desirable for the knowledge that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She gave some also to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. (3:7) Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realized that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together to make themselves loincloths. The author makes an interesting assumption here: that if you realize you are naked you will automatically want to cover yourself. Further implications will unfold shortly…
(Gen. 3:8) The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. (3:9) But Yahweh God called to the man. “Where are you?” he asked. (3:10) “I heard the sound of you in the garden,” he replied. “I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” (3:11) “Who told you that you were naked?” he asked. “Have you been eating of the tree I forbade you to eat?”
And so the sign of the Fall becomes modesty. Take note of this. The descendants of Adam and Eve will be distinguished throughout history from virtually all other peoples by their obsessive modesty taboos, wherein they will feel ashamed of being naked. It follows that those who feel no shame in being naked are, by definition, not carriers of this spiritual disease of original sin!
(Gen. 3:12) The man replied, “It was the woman you put with me; she gave me the fruit, and I ate it.” Right. Blame the woman. What a turkey! (3:13) Then Yahweh God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman replied, “The serpent tempted me and I ate. “So of course she blames the serpent. But just what did the serpent do that was so evil? Why, he called Yahweh a liar! Was he wrong? Let’s see… (3:21) Yahweh God made clothes out of skins for the man and his wife, and they put them on. Out of skins? This means that Yahweh had to kill some innocent animals to pander to Adam and Eve’s new obsession with modesty!
And now we come to the crux of the Fall. Yahweh had said back there in chapter (2:17), regarding the fruit of the tree of knowledge, that “on the day you eat of it you shall most surely die.” The Serpent, on the other hand, had contradicted Yahweh in chapter (3:4-5): “No! You will not die! God knows in fact that on the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil.” So what actually happened? Who lied and who told the truth about this remarkable fruit? The answer is given in the next verse: (3:22) Then Yahweh God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, with his knowledge of good and evil. He must not be allowed to stretch his hand out next and pick from the tree of life also, and eat some and live forever.”
Get that? Yahweh himself admits that he had lied! In fact, and in Yahweh’s own words, the Serpent spoke the absolute truth!

What if Adam and Eve ate only from the Tree of Life, and God never kicked them, or their descendants out of the Garden of Eden. Wouldn’t it get full fast, wouldn’t the world be horribly overpopulated with no one dying?
Or was it that God knew all along that Adam and Eve would eat from the Tree of Knowledge, so there was no problem in the logistics of Eden.
But, if God knew this then how can we blame Adam and Eve for the fall of man, when it was clearly in God’s plans all along?
And why does God continue to punish us for His plan?

There’s a question regarding the 5 things we lost when Adam and Eve were cast out of the garden.http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind…
I’ve never heard of this. Where did this come from? Is it Catholic dogma or something? Where is the scriptural backing that shows that Adam really lost dominion? We seem to be pretty darn dominating over the Earth. The only domain we seemed to have lost is the actual Garden of Eden.
When someone asks why we eat meat and why we should be allowed to take control over our environment and use animals as tools and food Christians always say it’s because dominion over the Earth was given to Adam. Well if you believe that the gift of dominion was lost, then why would you say that we should be allowed to maintain that dominion?