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Originally Posted by Esaias
Not sure I follow you. Are you saying they were created immortal, sinned and lost it, and the tree of life was for restorative purposes?
If they had not sinned, they would have lived forever WITHOUT eating of the tree of life?
I'm not sure I see that from the text in Romans as being a necessary inference. Could it not mean death came by sin because they were barred from the tree of life as punishment for sin?
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I see it as this... sin brought death. And as Mizpeh said, dying would only occur if they ate of the forbidden fruit, whether they ate other fruit or not.
The fruit of life corresponds similarly to the lamb slain from the foundation in that it had the remedy of sin and death, which was not required before sin.
Death came by sin. Plain and simple. If physical death was not included, then why is Christ's physical death payment for sin, seeing the soul that sinneth shall surely die?
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