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Have you ever stopped to consider why God placed both the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life in the Garden of Eden? 
 
I think He did it because, as is His pattern, He wanted man to have a choice.  Man could choose to eat of the tree of life and live eternally. Or, as history shows, the first man and woman could eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and open our eyes to sin, things not of God, which leads to death.
 
So why didn’t Adam eat from the tree of life?  It seems like such an easy choice looking in hindsight.  Well this is what I figure:
 

  1. The two of them didn’t actually know what death was.  Because, as of yet, they didn’t know the things of evil, the thing called sin, which leads to death (Romans 6:23).

 
And
 

  1. They were experiencing life as they walked with God in the garden.  It doesn’t make sense to pursue something that you already have.  Until they chose to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they were fully alive both physically and spiritually. 

 
What got me thinking about this was a passage from Genesis.
 
Genesis 3:22-24 “Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.  So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the Garden of Eden, and a flaming sword, which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.”
 
God kicked them from the garden in order to protect them!  If Adam and Eve were able to eat of the tree of life their bodies would never die.  However, their bodies would be a prison of sin and they would forever be separated spiritually from God.  So, considering further, death of our sinful bodies is actually God showing mercy on the human race.
 
This is what makes what Christ has done so incredible.  He died and took our sins upon Himself that we may truly have life in Him. Not only eternally but here and now!
 
I love you all, God bless