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Two Trees in the Middle
God stops speaking things into existence and FORMS the man from the soil, then breathes life into his nostrils.
God planted the orchard, including the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and put it in the middle, next to the tree of life. The tree of life is a picture of partaking of Christ. Genesis 3:22–24 will later bar the way so they cannot live forever in unredeemed sin. Randy’s answer to “why put the tree there at all” is that love requires a choice. No choice, no love, only robots. The same pattern shows up in “take up your cross daily.” Without that tree, God would never be known…
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