Re: Jesus Christ = “The tree of Life”, where is that in the Bible???
My point is precisely that, which is that nowhere in the Bible you will find that equation. Jesus was in the world for long enough time to where He had hundreds of opportunities to compare Himself to “the tree of life”. He didn’t, nether did any of the apostles in any of the gospels or the epistles. Did He not know of the tree of life? Absolutely He did! So why would He not say so if He was it? Because He knew it wasn’t so!
I point this out, because these man have built a slew of teachings based on the foundation that doesn’t exist in the Bible. Never mentioned, never associated with it. I want to look at these verses carefully and see exactly what God said in Genesis 3:22-24;
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:
23*Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
24*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.
God didn’t say in any of the statements that man would be redeemed from the fall of the sin by eating of “the tree of life”, did He? He didn’t say that if they eat of the tree of life that they would be reconnected back to their original state, did He? No He didn’t! It’s as clear as it gets, He didn’t want man to live forever in the fallen state of sin, and that’s why He put the angel there to guard the tree. Did He had a plan then? Did He know that it was going to happen? Of course He did, and making sure that man would only be redeemed through the completed work of Christ, He had mercy and grace then, by shortening the live span of man to make sure that the work of redemption would be done through His Son!
These man that take this and make the whole Gospel message out of it, and present it to people as a truth are total frauds! They offer people life forever through the tree of life, using the name of Jesus as a cover! It’s not in the Bible for a reason, but it’s offered by other god, that’s promoted and worshiped by the same people that crucified Him in the first place!
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“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.” ― C.S. Lewis
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