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Macrobius offered this in the SB:
…seems like what is missed is that Adam and Eve were banned from the garden and specifically barred from the tree of life that sustained them so that in having become “like one of Us” they shouldn’t live forever:
Gen 3:22 “And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”…well that idea they should live forever in their rebellion was unacceptable…and so they were kicked out.
Imagine a disobedient rebellious uncircumcised heart beating forever…forever rotting decaying diminishing… forever tortured and tormented rejecting Him His times and laws…
Instead barred to the tree of life they died being mortals…
Such Mercy…such Grace…
and yet now here He changes and allows and sustains the torture and torment of mere mortals to continue forever?
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…seems like what is missed is that Adam and Eve were banned from the garden and specifically barred from the tree of life that sustained them so that in having become “like one of Us” they shouldn’t live forever:
Gen 3:22 “And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”…well that idea they should live forever in their rebellion was unacceptable…and so they were kicked out.
Imagine a disobedient rebellious uncircumcised heart beating forever…forever rotting decaying diminishing… forever tortured and tormented rejecting Him His times and laws…
Instead barred to the tree of life they died being mortals…
Such Mercy…such Grace…
and yet now here He changes and allows and sustains the torture and torment of mere mortals to continue forever?
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