Revised - 'Our Right' To Tree Of Life

[ugmug]

Revised With Additional Comments....to explain why Jesus Christ is, and must be, God become man!

'Our Right' To Tree Of Life

When God created this world he gave Adam and Eve dominion over all of his creation except for one tree - The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. After Adam and Eve sinned they learned of another tree - The Tree of Life. While one tree was forbidden to man by God the other was not.

When Adam and Eve sinned God barred them both from all access to the Garden of Eden meaning they no longer had any access to the Tree of Life that would have granted them eternal life. BUT man still retained dominion over the Tree of Life. This dominion means that while we have a right to the tree of Life (therefore a right to our salvation) we lost the right to have any access to the Tree of Life due to sin.

When God became man as Jesus Christ, God reclaimed dominion over all his creation, along with the Tree of Life, that he gave to mankind. God couldn't just take back the tree of Life that he already gave to man therefore he (God) had to become flesh (Jesus Christ) and reclaim dominion over it himself. Then when Jesus Christ died on the cross as a sinless man he instantly regained access to the Garden of Eden and having both dominion over the Tree of Life as a man, and access to the Tree of Life by dying sinless on the cross, he could eat of the fruit of the Tree of Life and live forever.

Now Jesus Christ, having reclaimed dominion, and access, over the Tree of Life, could have just saved himself and left all others to their sinful fate of eternity apart from God in hell. But Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit, now offers that same access to the Tree of Life for anyone who believes in his name.

Mankind never lost the right to the Tree of Life which God bestowed upon us when he gave us dominion over all of his creation. What mankind lost was the right to access the tree of Life that would ensure our continued existence with God forever. Jesus Christ is God become man to both regain dominion over the Tree of Life and regain access to it without violating any of God's original decrees or promises. Many people clamor for their rights in society while the greatest right is to eat of the Tree of Life and live forever with God in heaven. This right can only be exercised through a belief in Jesus Christ who offers all of us access to this Tree of Life once again through him.

People today hire and depend on other professionals to secure their rights using lawyers, accountants, politicians, judges, real estate agents, bankers, etc, so why should it seem so strange that we should have to call upon Jesus Christ to secure our right to the Tree of Life thereby gaining an existence with God forever? Jesus Christ charges nothing for his services in securing our right to the Tree of Life, that he already paid the FULL price on the cross. To secure your right to the Tree of Life, and your salvation, just publicly acknowledge your request by asking Jesus Christ for his help. It's that simple to ensure an eternal life with God in heaven forever!

Claim your right of salvation by believing in Jesus Christ and publicly demonstrating this belief by getting baptized! It's that simple!

God Bless

note:

Since God did not destroy the Tree of Life when he kicked Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, due to man's disobedience, man still retains dominion over it. Mankind essentially lost any and all access to the Tree of Life for which a belief in Jesus Christ restores.

It must be emphasized that since Jesus Christ is God become man, Jesus now has dominion over both the Tree of the Knowledge and Evil and the Tree of Life, whereas ordinary man has only dominion over the Tree of Life. Which is why Jesus Christ having the Knowledge of Good and Evil as a man isn't a sin!

Only Jesus Christ – God become man through a virgin birth- could offer himself as a sinless sacrifice for all of our sins on the cross! Jesus Christ possess the knowledge of Good and Evil, not because of sin like sinful man but because as God he always had this knowledge. Additionally because Jesus Christ is God in human form mankind instantly gains dominion over the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil without incurring any sin! Once we believe in Jesus Christ we instantly gain dominion over the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil along with Jesus Christ and are forgiven!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For only God as Jesus Christ could be both sinless and still possess the knowledge of good and evil, for he always had it. Whereas mankind acquired his knowledge of good and evil through an act of sin by Adam and Eve which is passed down to all of us through birth.


Amen

 

[Brother Mike]

When God became man as Jesus Christ, God reclaimed dominion over all his creation, along with the Tree of Life, that he gave to mankind. God couldn't just take back the tree of Life that he already gave to man therefore he (God) had to become flesh (Jesus Christ) and reclaim dominion over it himself.

So your not Trinitarian?

Jesus Christ possess the knowledge of Good and Evil, not because of sin like sinful man but because as God he always had this knowledge.

Would there be a scripture that God always had the knowledge of evil. God "found" iniquity in Satan and Jesus said satan is the father of lies (Author and creator) That tells me God knew something was different from Good from the author of evil.

This sounds like a interesting theory, but I have issues with it being about a tree, and not the precious blood of the lamb. The tree was in a physical Garden, and the tree of good and evil was really the knowledge of calamity, not how to do evil, but the knowledge that bad things can happen

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adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease (-ure), distress, evil ([-favouredness], man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief (-vous), harm, heavy, hurt (-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief, (-vous), misery, naught (-ty), noisome, + not please, sad (-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked

So the tree gave someone the knowledge of evil things happening to them. Fear of things that could happen that Adam did not have before.

If things can go wrong, they will go wrong.

Through that knowledge, Fear comes, and fear produces sin. Fear of not having enough, fear of someone breaking in the house, fear of a loved one not coming home, fear. Fear of missing out, fear of not being satisfied (adultery, drugs, money)

Believers today are full of doubt and fear, and speak as if cancer is a big deal, or cry and worry over bills when God said I will supply your needs. It would appear the effects of that tree are still here even in believers.

Mike.

 

[jasoncran]

off topic. lets be real. you will fear death, god doesn't take the fear of dying from us. he just makes the death appear so insificant to us that we forget that we died and or dying. im sure that jesus could preach on that when he died on the cross. he suffured and felt death for us.