Why was There a Tree of Life?

Sunlight filtering throught leave of a knarled tree in the fall

And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so.

(Genesis 1:29-30) NKJV

The last thing we want to clear up is this: when God said to Adam, regarding the tree of knowledge, for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Adam didn’t die. As we saw yesterday, he began to die. Biological senescence started.

June 25 – Dying You Shall Die

“in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Adam didn’t drop dead the moment that he ate the fruit, he lived for 900+ years. Is this a contradiction?

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