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Originally Posted by Trapped
"Inherit everlasting life" doesn't mean "become God". The tree of life was in the middle of the garden of Eden. After Adam and Eve sinned, they were kept from that tree so they wouldn't not eat of it and live forever... Does Adam and Eve having access to the tree of life so they can live forever mean they were God because of it? No. They were human beings who were allowed access to live forever.
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There's a footnote at the end of the
RecV, on the tree of life, where it says the 'nations' (Gk:
'ethnoi') get healed by the leaves of the tree, and the note says that these are unbelievers who behave well during the 3.5 year "Great Tribulation" and get access to healing. The note then says, "They live forever, yet this is not eternal life". (I paraphrase by memory).
There's a certain point where the finite tries to explain infinity, where the fallible tries to show perfection, and the temporal incautiously grasps at eternity, and the finite, temporal, fallible logic takes the bearer off somewhere, like where Witness Lee and his disciples got taken off to. I don't know where that is, and I don't want to. I have enough trouble already, without getting into his trouble, too!
There's a Russian proverb that says, "No matter how far you've gone on the wrong road, turn back."