Genesis 3

[Drich]

"God" offered the 'tree of life'?

3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

To quote Brother Drich: where?

I see your verses 22-24 and raise you a 2 and 3

2 The woman answered the snake, “No, we can eat fruit from the trees in the garden. 3 But there is one tree we must not eat from. God told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not even touch that tree, or you will die.’”

Meaning they had access to ALL the trees in the garden EXCEPT the tree of knoweledge of Good and Evil. This includes the tree of life. Why would their be temptation on one tree's fruit if there were others who had yet to be sampled?

Temptation comes in the forbidden when all other options become boring. If Adam and Eve spent all the time in the garden that it took for the rest of the world to develop, even if the garden was 2/3's the size of North America, that means they would have seen and done everything their was to do in the garden 1000 times over. There was a reason they were both in proximity to the tree of knowledge/the last unknown in the center of the garden.

When they ate of the fruit their immortal lives ended/they died that very day, just like God promised.

Something they could have remedied by eating from the tree of life again.