Good honest communication going on, I really do appreciate that. Thanks to you all.
The tree of life was guarded by flaming swords, if I am correct, and God banished Adam and Eve from the garden, so they never partook of the tree of life.
Many prophets and good people desired to have what we have, in times past, before the time for Jesus to declare the Father. Jesus declares the Father and the Father declares the Son, by the Holy Spirit in us. No man has ascended to the Father except one, Jesus.
As things in the natural bear witness to the spiritual, as do all things in the spiritual bear witness to the natural. Born physical with a spirit, then follow Jesus and die to be reborn in a new life, which is spirit. His Spirit in us. The first part- body and spirit is a soul, and the second part- our spirit with His Spirit is His body, which is a many membered body.
Strange how it sounds, in the physical, body and spirit is a soul, which sounds spiritual, yet when our spirit is baptized in His Spirit it is called a body. But still no matter how you look at it, 1 plus 1 is still 2.
That's just my two cents worth, if its worth that much, :lol:
God bless,
Gary