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Originally Posted by mfblume
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.
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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this strikes me as two cases of circular reasoning, wadr. "Lest he take also" seems to allow that this was possible, to me. "We need to keep him from the fruit of the tree of life, which is currently available to him."
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