The Bible is clear on these three points:
- Our options are life and death.
- God wants us to choose life.
- God respects the choice we make.
The two trees in the garden of Eden symbolize the options that are always before us:
- “I have set before you life and death” (Deuteronomy 30:19).
- “Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death’” (Jeremiah 21:8).
- “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
- “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
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