Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
The woman was sentenced to the pangs of childbirth, and the man was made to toil and sweat
from the hostile soil. God then barred access to the Tree of Life by placing cherubim and a
flaming sword at the eastern entrance to Eden.
"The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to
reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."
But instead of removing the tree of life from the Garden of Eden, Lord God banished Adam
from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. Apparently the
law of decay was already in the material world. After he drove the man out, he placed on the
east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to
guard the way to the tree of life.
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