Genesis 3:20-24
20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
21 Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Eve was named to mean life or living, because all humanity would come out of her for life, just as her life came out of Adam, whose life God breathed into him. We all come from God via Adam by Eve’s conception of children, and this pattern of bringing forth life after itself is in God’s creation (1 Corinthians 11:8-12), and therefore we are all made to bear His image. God made clothing cover their sin by killing the first animal as a first sacrifice. Then He as the triune God said we were like the Godhead in knowledge of good and evil, and did not want our original parents to become forever living in sin by eating of the other tree, that of eternal life, so He banned humanity from the paradise made for us from where we were created. Then He placed angelic guards and a sword of fire to the east of Eden to guard the way to eternal life, at least until sin could be dealt with in Christ many millennia later. We must be righteous to obtain life from God’s tree for eternity, and this sin of knowing evil kept Adam and Eve, along with all born from them through the ages. We need a gate (John 10:9, Romans 5:21) opened to become our righteousness to gain access to the eternal life made for us by the Lord our Maker. Until then, we work the ground we were made out of to survive as Adam in verse 23 here, trying to work for a reconciliation with God, but always falling short; we need God’s work to free us from this life of our own ineffectual works (Romans 3:23, 6,23).
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