Enough about the tree of knowledge, why was there a tree of life in the garden?

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Why were those two particular trees there if Adam and Eve weren't allowed access to them?
I understand that not everyone actually studies the Bible in a logical manner, but some of these answers have convinced me that these people haven't even read it.
 
because they were NOT immortal in the garden....everyone wants to think that before eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, that Adam and Eve were immortal......but if that were the case, then there would have been no need for the Tree of life

i ASSUME that the tree of life was there to heal any illness that befell them.........and in that assumption, i am assuming that they COULD come down with illnesses by nature
 
IMHO both trees represent an Axis mundi. Without which A&E least problem would be an inability to tell up from down, right from wrong etc. Indeed they wouldn't have had an existance/"world" to live in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_mundi

As to the concept of temptation which you seem to looking at, just read up on the Gnostics. They seem to think the material existance/state, had been "counjured up" by a god who wasn't looking for humanities best interests. Maybe by design, maybe by accident/failure. There answer to this state is seek elightmentment....

(yes it's does sounds a lot like "the Matrix".... It's where the idea came from before being "updated")
 
Because God gave them free will and wanted them to make the right choices. I think it was called the tree of knowledge because from that point on they had to think for themselves. Prior too this time God totally cared for them, after wards they had to fin for themselves.
 
When Adam was created, God placed in the garden of Eden “the tree of life.” (Ge 2:9) This tree evidently had no intrinsic life-giving qualities in its fruit, but it represented God’s guarantee of life “to time indefinite” to the one whom God would allow to eat of its fruit. Since the tree was put there by God for some purpose, undoubtedly Adam would have been permitted to eat this fruit after proving faithful to a point that God considered satisfactory and sufficient. When Adam transgressed, he was prevented from having opportunity to eat from the tree, Jehovah saying: “Now in order that he may not put his hand out and actually take fruit also from the tree of life and eat and live to time indefinite,—.” Then Jehovah followed his words with action. He would not allow one unworthy of life to live in the garden made for righteous persons and to eat of the tree of life.—Ge 3:22,Â*23.
 
It's borrowed mythology, so the Jews took what was already out there and put it in their own book, so that all these years later we could still ponder the meaning of it.
 
According to a Jewish friend, the Tree of Life leads up to God. It is depicted in synagogues.
 
If they proved worthy of eternal life by listening to God then they'd have access to the tree of life but because they proved from the beginning that they will not listen to God, they were not worthy of eternal life as we can see how stupid and evil people are to this day so God kicked them out before they ate from that tree too and then He'd be stuck with them for eternity - rebellious humans who don't listen to God. God got the last laugh since we now die and even our lifespans are greatly reduced compared to Adam who lived over 900 years. The more wicked we became the more God continues to punish us.
 
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