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Tree of Life..or..Book of Life?

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Rev 22:19...is it tree of life or Book of life?

NAS and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.

KJV And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life,and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
 
Rev 22:19...is it tree of life or Book of life?

NAS and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.

KJV And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life,and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

No life means eternal death.

Either way
 
Rev 22:19...is it tree of life or Book of life?

NAS and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.

KJV And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life,and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Morning Brother Cygnus.
Reading the following scripture, Who, or What is the Tree of Life? Is there another name given among men that we may be saved and live forever? Acts 4:12.

Gen 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil (That ministration of death in tables of stone - 2 Cor 3:7): and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Rev 3:5 He that overcometh (How do we overcome? - 1 Jn 5:5, believing on Jesus?), the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Now basing what we read in Rev 3:5, and that of Rev 22:19, can Jesus be speaking to us in Christ or false prophets for instance saying there is another way than Christ to be saved? The believer will never have their name erased, and the unbeliever is not in the book of life. Even at the great white throne

Rev 17:8 Notice here that: “. . they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

Php 4:3 How did Paul know that his fellowlabourers in the gospel names were written the book of life.

Notice one more thing if you will in Rev 21:27 Whose book is this book of life? And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
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Rev 22:19...is it tree of life or Book of life?

NAS and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.

KJV And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life,and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Two different things. Revelation 22 talks about the tree of life. All of that chapter makes it make sense when referring to the tree. Revelation 20 talks about the book of life, as do other scriptures.

With the Book of Life, John 8 tells us “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
That isn't telling us there are conditions on our salvation and we can misstep and lose it. God is the Word. We abide in him and we are his disciples , which means students of the Word. Just as Jesus' disciples were when they were with him and he was teaching them the secrets of the kingdom and the reason he was here. We are in the Word when we are redeemed in Christ. We're one with God. Our species was created in the beginning with Adam and Adam was created in the image and likeness of God. God's power and will created man to be what he became by God making it happen.

Then we were misled by that which was worldly here, that which was averse to God's goodness. The antithesis of God's righteousness. His mirror opposite, Satan.

God told Adam don't eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Because if he did he would die. He didn't drop dead in the body when he ate it. He died in his oneness link with the spirit of The Word, The Father. A separation occurred. Knowledge of the material world entered woman first and then man. Because by man sin came into the world. Because God told the man, Adam, not to eat of that fruit. He was responsible for guiding the woman to righteousness. He failed. Eve was misled by the worldly god, Satan.
That's why they became ashamed, Adam and Eve, when they had already eaten of the fruit and now had the knowledge of the world's rules. Self. The flesh. Self-consciousness. Whereas before they were one with God consciousness.

Then John 8 as part of what came later as the new saving testament that reunites us to God through our being saved in Him from this worlds illusion of life and death, tells us, if you abide in My word, which is accept the rule of redemption unto eternal salvation and life reunited with the Word, we are the Word's disciples. That's why in the John 8 scripture, "My" is capitalized. Just like John 1:1 , and that says, in the beginning was the Word, word being capitalized as a proper noun there. And the Word was with God. And the Word was God.
John 8 tells us when we accept the covenant that describes Salvation we are "My", God's, the Word's, disciples indeed. And we shall know the truth, and the truth shall make us free of the trappings , the illusion, the sin spirit that guides this world. Satan. Who hopes to lead us away from righteousness.

That's why the passage in Revelation 22 speaks against those who would miss-word, misrepresent, alter, change, the truth that does set us free. Their names aren't in the Book of Life. They will not see the Tree of Life that is in the Holy City.
 
Wikipedia isn't credible for Apologetics or Theology resourcing. It can be edited by anyone who chooses to. And until or unless the Wiki fact checker staff finds the entry, it will stand even if it is wrong.
There are atheists on atheist sites that I've encountered in the past that get a thrill editing Christian religious topics on Wiki.
 
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