Monday, August 12, 2013

The Tree of Life

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 forever:  Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.  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.   Genesis 3:22-24

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty nine years, and he died.  Genesis 5:27

The Tree of Life.  It is said that if man ate of the fruit of the Tree of Life he would live forever.  What could have been in that fruit?  Also, even without this fruit, we read that Methuselah lived to be 969.  By the way, this timeline of Methuselah's death would coincide with the year of the biblical Flood.  So I speculate that Methuselah died in the Flood.

Have you ever wondered about what causes aging and death?  What was in the fruit of the Tree of Life that would make man live forever?  How it could be that people that lived before the Flood lived to be close to 1000 years old?

What if the Tree of Life were found?