Edible Words

In the middle of the Garden of Eden were two trees; the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Each tree identified by name. Each name carrying with it a promise of God. God's will was for Adam and Eve to receive His gift of eternal life by trusting His word and so to eat the fruit of the tree to which that promise was attached. But they did not trust God. Adam and Eve chose to go their own way and disobey God, they ate from the tree from which God said "do not eat". In doing so received their just desserts; not only the promise of the knowledge of good and evil but the promise of death.

And so three results of the fall were:
1.God's law was broken
2.God's creatures tasted death as a result of God's promise
3.The way to the sacrament of the tree of life was barred by God.

But God would not leave it that way, his purpose is to bless his people with eternal life.

And so, Jesus reverses the results of the fall:
1.in life, he kept God's law and fulfilled it for us
2.in death, he tasted death for everyone
3.through his sacrament, Jesus supersedes the tree of life, offering eternal life to all who will feed, not on the fruit of the tree, but on him by faith

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