DECODING THE TREE OF LIFE IN THE BIBLE

Decoding the "Tree of Life" in the Garden of Eden

by: Melvz Alvarez

The Garden of Eden (Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן, Gan ʿEḏen) or (often) Paradise, is the biblical "garden of God",described most notably in the Book of Genesis chapters 2 and 3, and also in the Book of Ezekiel.^[2][3] Genesis 13:10 refers to the "garden of God" (not called Eden by name),^[4] and the "trees of the garden" are mentioned in Ezekiel 31.^[5] The Book of Zechariah and the Book of Psalms also refer to trees and water in relation to the temple without explicitly mentioning Eden.^[6]

now the question is, What kind of tree is that, so called "Tree of Life & Tree of knowledge of good & evil" that Adam and Eve must identified & avoided to eat?

The "tree of life"  Characteristics:

- with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month.(Revelation 22:2)

- leaves were for the "healing of the Nation"

- fruits had so long sustained on earth

- this plant grew as "Tree of life in Urantia World (Planet Earth, Urantia means our world)

- This superplant stored up certain space-energies which were antidotal to the age- 

   producing elements of animal existence.

- The fruit of the tree of life was like a superchemical storage battery, mysteriously              

   releasing the life-extension force of the universe when eaten.

- The tree of knowledge good and evil.

So therefore: The "tree of life" is not an APPLE! it cannot bear 12 kinds of fruits monthly.

ANSWER: GRAFTED OLIVE TREE/EVERGREEN TREE

http://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-71-development-state

                                                                  6. The Tree of Life

73:6.1 (825.6) In the center of the Garden temple Van planted the long-guarded tree of life, whose leaves were for the “healing of the nations,” and whose fruit had so long sustained him on earth. Van well knew that Adam and Eve would also be dependent on this gift of Edentia for their life maintenance after they once appeared on Urantia in material form.

73:6.2 (825.7) The Material Sons on the system capitals do not require the tree of life for sustenance. Only in the planetary repersonalization are they dependent on this adjunct to physical immortality.

73:6.3 (825.8) The “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” may be a figure of speech, a symbolic designation covering a multitude of human experiences, but the “tree of life” was not a myth; it was real and for a long time was present on Urantia. When the Most Highs of Edentia approved the commission of Caligastia as Planetary Prince of Urantia and those of the one hundred Jerusem citizens as his administrative staff, they sent to the planet, by the Melchizedeks, a shrub of Edentia, and this plant grew to be the tree of life on Urantia. This form of nonintelligent life is native to the constellation headquarters spheres, being also found on the headquarters worlds of the local and superuniverses as well as on the Havona spheres, but not on the system capitals.

73:6.4 (826.1) This superplant stored up certain space-energies which were antidotal to the age-producing elements of animal existence. The fruit of the tree of life was like a superchemical storage battery, mysteriously releasing the life-extension force of the universe when eaten. This form of sustenance was wholly useless to the ordinary evolutionary beings on Urantia, but specifically it was serviceable to the one hundred materialized members of Caligastia’s staff and to the one hundred modified Andonites who had contributed of their life plasm to the Prince’s staff, and who, in return, were made possessors of that complement of life which made it possible for them to utilize the fruit of the tree of life for an indefinite extension of their otherwise mortal existence.

73:6.5 (826.2) During the days of the Prince’s rule the tree was growing from the earth in the central and circular courtyard of the Father’s temple. Upon the outbreak of the rebellion it was regrown from the central core by Van and his associates in their temporary camp. This Edentia shrub was subsequently taken to their highland retreat, where it served both Van and Amadon for more than one hundred and fifty thousand years.