Gen 3:22-24 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever--therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. " Adam and Eve were NEVER given a "choice" about eating from the tree of life. God knew what their choice would be knowing what they had just lost. In fact, not only did God prevent it, God placed some pretty tough dude angels around it just so they COULDN'T partake of the tree of life.
You can only come to the wedding feast if you're invited. Those are the biblical facts.
Is your free will choice, here for example, to reply or not, an illusion?