What happened to the two trees in the Garden of Eden?
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St. Thomas makes the only rational point that can answer this question.
the tree of life was corruptible, otherwise it could not be taken as food; since food is changed into the substance of the thing nourished.
So if the tree (either of them) were meant to fix its consumers bodies and give them natural immortality it has to drop its fruit and if it can drop its fruit, then it can drop its limbs and if it can.drop its limbs, it can drop its trunk and if it can drop its trunk, it can wither up and die.
If there was only one of each tree Adam and Eve seriously had very little hope of getting the same fruit out of its descendants. But, on a happier note there's really no reason to surmise that a portion of either trees' genetics hasn't been passed down through the centuries.
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In the Book of Revelation chapter 22:1-3, John in a vision saw the Tree of Life “on either side of the river” that “flows from the throne of God”, in The New Jerusalem in Heaven.
Rev 22:1-3 NIV
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
It may be deduced that the tree was not destroyed in the Great Flood but was instead taken up to heaven and will return to the “earth made new” ie. The Restored Eden, when the Celestial City descends to earth at the return of Jesus Christ.
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I assumed that everyone knows what happened to Torah, so here is the answer more simply put. This is the teaching of Judaism, but surely is important to Christianity. The Christian OT is taken from Judaism.
The tree of Life in the Garden of Eden, is a metaphor for the Torah in Judaism - which after all is where the Tree of Life comes from. In Torah, the Tree of Life is God's blueprint for his creation, and in Orthodox Judaism it existed prior to the creation. God is seen as the Architect working from His blueprint, Torah.
“And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.” Genesis 3:22, 23, KJV.
God gave Torah to Moses at Sinai. Torah has been handed down to the present day, and is in every synagogue (that can afford it.) And it is in the Christian OT (the Hebrew version, not the Greek, of course, since the Hebrews consider that to be in error.)
So, the tree of life is alive and well. I have a Jewish Book containing the five books of Moses (plus) and whose cover title is ETZ HAYIM which means Tree of Life.
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