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"You can't have eternal life without knowing what is good" I don't know why you would say that. The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil killed Adam and Eve. Knowing good did them no good, that's for sure.

There is no mention of good or evil in the Tree of life. The Law of Moses follows the principle of good and evil. That law is death because mankind refuses to obey. Fallen man has nothing to obey with. Plainly, knowing what is good and what is evil is useless to save anyone. All it does is convict and condemn.

What people really need is life. That's why Jesus came (John 10:10). This is not, as some believe, (looking at you NLT) a better lifestyle. Greek has 2 words for life while English has one. The word Jesus uses is "Zoe". It is spiritual life, the life that comes from God. Jesus does not just give life, He is the Life.

Everyone is born with natural life. This is the life God gave Adam and Eve. It was sufficient for them to tend the garden, make choices, understand and show emotion. But it was not God's ultimate for them. They disobeyed God and discovered what is good and what is evil. Therefore God drove them out of Eden.

If God predestined them to evil, then all that happened in Eden was pointless. And nothing that God does or says is pointless.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil isn't what killed Adam and Eve.Its was going against the word of God that killed them.Their disobedience to the commandment God gave them was their downfall.

God did not predestined them to evil.That's why i mentioned the skins that were placed on them.
 
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The tree of the knowledge of good and evil isn't what killed Adam and Eve.Its was going against the word of God that killed them.Their disobedience to the commandment God gave them was their downfall.

God did not predestined them to evil.That's why i mentioned the skins that were placed on them.
Romans 5 :14
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die
, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

When you said that the The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is not good and evil,it is literally in the name.Just look at all the titles,names of Jesus and he has all those attributes in him.
When he said he is the first and the last you can tie it to these verses here.He was the first Adam and he is the last Adam.
Roman's 5:14 says that Adam was the figure of him that was to come.How is that not predestined?! The first Adam died.The last Adam rose from the dead.
Do you understand what I'm getting at? Because Ephesians 1:3–7 testifies to these things and you just disregard it so I feel like you don't understand the point I was trying to make.
A seed must die and fall unto the ground before it bares much fruit.Don't you think that it's amazing how God does these things?That 'Adam' died and rose up from the dead?'Nothing is random like you said.
Everything I talked about I posted scripture to testify it as truth.Is God evil that he made plans for his son before the foundation of the world?No,of course not.

The only scriptures I didn't post is from the claim that the garden of Eden is like the temple court.Which is also like a garden.
One big misconception is that Jesus died in Jerusalem.He didn't.Jesus died outside the city gate of Jerusalem in a garden.

John 19:41
Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden
; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Revelation 11:8
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city
, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

The great city is those of the world,the unrepentant.That's who Mystery Babylon is.

Because Adam and Eve where placed in the garden it's like they were placed outside the temple court/garden.
Their time hasn't come yet just like the gentiles.
That's the whole reason why Jesus was hung on the cross outside the city.He died for the world,and that's why the place he died at had a garden and why the Jerusalem at that time would have represented 'heaven' just like how the Temple of the Lord, and the temple court/garden would have been symbolically the same.
God did not have these things done randomly.
 
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Rev 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. When the Holy Spirit entered into me, He came with the message, "All will be just fine." There were no words in my ear, rather it came into me.
He has spoken to me in a dream, and other times with a message for the person to whom I was to give it. These incidents are normal for all who believe Him in Yeshua, Jesus.