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Originally Posted by shazeep
...exactly when they were expressly denied it.
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They were denied it because they still retained sin. I get the impression the combination of the forbidden fruit plus the life was disallowed. Notice it says lest he take ALSO of the fruit of life. Sinners who cannot die cannot be saved by vicarious death.
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Also, your first statement here seems specious, and my reply also addresses that. Again, hindsight here tells me that if you are going to eat the fruit of knowledge, you would eat the fruit of life either before or immediately after; and yet they, who were "on the ground" here, and cannot be assumed to be more ignorant of the matter, did not do this--and satan did not suggest it. Hmm. i would think he would delight in "sin living forever." So, i doubt we have found the "meat" here yet, wadr.
ok, and arguing a literal or figurative tree is arguing how many angels on the head of a pin, imo, at least in this argument. Pick one. Toggle back and forth. It's irrelevant.
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Again, death came by sin. No sin, no death. And no death, no need to eat fruit to live.
We have to believe there was death in mankind before sin otherwise. The greater overall point of that issue disallows for fruit necessary for life before sin.
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