That’s OK. I enjoy sarcasm.
Let’s simplify.
Explain why God was concerned that ADAM might eat of the TREE OF LIFE, if ADAM was not subject to death ?
I am not trying to shake your faith, I only question why this contradiction, and seek an explanation for it. Maybe it’s because I’m not so smart, and you have the answer.
Never give up.
Let’s simplify.
Explain why God was concerned that ADAM might eat of the TREE OF LIFE, if ADAM was not subject to death ?
I am not trying to shake your faith, I only question why this contradiction, and seek an explanation for it. Maybe it’s because I’m not so smart, and you have the answer.
Never give up.
Clearly there is a direct link between sin and death, and the effects were felt by more than Man
Genesis 3:17 “And unto Adam he said, Because thou has hearkened unto the voice of they wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of they life:”
Did animals eat other animals? Genesis 1”29-30” and God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.”
So the animals didn't eat each other before man's sin. At some point the same God that created the world changed the rules of his world.
I have a theory regarding the tree of life part of your question, that I plan on answering more directly, but I won't bore you with that speculation this early.