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Genesis
I see God as a Loving Protector...
After Adam and Eve eat from the wrong tree....and I mean the WRONG tree!
If there were two trees...which one would you eat from?
Especially since God specifically said do NOT eat from #1!
1- "The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil"
2- "The Tree of Life"
Tree of Life to me sounds more appealing, but perhaps it's because I am aware of my mortality.
If I had no concept of death and separation from God, perhaps the Tree of Life would seem a bit...pointless?
So the serpent convinces Eve and she convinces Adam and the two forget the ONE rule...(wow, don't you just want to slap them?) and eat from the wrong tree.
Later, after "finding out" that His creation had indeed failed to obey the one rule, God says "Man has become like one of us"...confirming the Trinity
and now he might take from t he Tree of Life and eat and live forever
So God banishes Adam and Eve from the garden.
And God places a Cherubim and flaming sword by the entrance to guard it from Adam or Eve (or anyone) returning.
Because sin has entered the picture, Adam is no longer pure.
Also, God told him that he would return to dust, meaning his body would return to the earth from where it came from. Adam is aware of his mortality.
So what happens if Adam then eats from the Tree of Life?
Which this would then separate him from God. He, of course, is a sinner, but has not done anything to offer anything in repentance.
So perhaps God puts the flaming sword and Cherubim to prevent Adam from returning to Eden and eating from the Tree of Life...because God is lovingly protecting him.
Maybe it wasn't necessarily driving him out b/c Adam doesn't "deserve" to live in Eden, or not necessarily all punishment here, or even more to it than sin and impurity can not remain in the Garden of Paradise, but...
perhaps...
b/c of the possibility that Adam, falling to temptation again, would eat the fruit from the Tree of Life and be separated from his creator. Because God loved Adam. God loved, adored Adam.
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