Rebuttal to “The Lord’s Recovery, Unchained” video
1. In the midst of the garden
The first point the narrator makes is that Lee is deceptive when he says the Tree of Life is in the center of the garden. He quotes Lee five or six times saying the tree of life is the CENTER of the garden. Then he says, voice dripping with sarcasm: “So what’s the takeaway? There is a garden and in the center of the garden is the TREE OF LIFE. Sound good? Weeellllll … it’s not quite true. It is not really true that it is the tree of life that is the center of the garden.”
Really? You’re telling me that it isn’t true to say the tree of life is in the center of the garden? Take a look:
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And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. [Genesis 2:9: NKJV]
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Ah, you say … but what about the rest of the verse? That’s what the narrator says as well.
Well, what about it? Does adding “[comma] and the tree of knowledge of good and evil” change the fact that the tree of life is at the center of the garden? Of course not. It is true, indisputably and undeniably, that the tree of life is in the center of the garden according to the scripture. It may also be true the tree of knowledge of good and evil is there (and this is debated throughout Jewish and Christian literature) but one cannot deny that (I’ll say it again) THE TREE OF LIFE IS IN THE CENTER OF THE GARDEN.
Yet the narrator does deny it. He says “It’s not quite true” then “It is not really true that it is the tree of life that is the center of the garden.”
The narrator builds his entire argument on this broken cornerstone. He does it within the first 3 minutes of his video. He is telling us that it’s a false teaching to say the tree of life is in the center of the garden because there is another tree possibly next to it.
If I’m a judge and this is a trial, I dismiss it at this point.
[More to come]