Genesis 3:21-24

This 3rd chapter of Genesis is so rich in meaning and import--I know my analysis is not exhaustive--that I am quoting the rich, remaining lines in full. Here they are from my 1970 The American Bible: "For the man and his wife, the Lord God made leather garments, with which he clothed them. Then the Lord God said: 'See! The man has become like one of us, knowing what is good and what is bad. Therefore, he must not be allowed to put out his hand to take fruit from the tree of life also, and thus eat of it and live forever. The Lord God therefore banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he had been taken. When he expelled the man, he settled him east of the garden of Eden; and he stationed the cherubim and the fiery revolving sword, to guard the way to the tree of life." Note that Yahweh had to slay a cow or sheep or pig to sow together leather garments for the First Couple to be dressed in, so this seems to indicate the Yahweh allows humans to kill animals for food and clothing. The Lord God announced to his angels that the man--and his wife--had become like one of the divine souls by sinning. They now were alive, conscious and instilled with a conscience and soul. But as free-willing sinners, mortal humans were to remain separated and barred from touching or eating the fruit of the tree of life and knowledge. Only Yahweh and his angels were good enough, strong enough, loving enough and self-disciplined enough to live in two worlds, extending and ruling the real of good on both sides of the divide. Let me explain: Yahweh and his angels could live in the world, know of good and evil, perhaps sin mildly, without the exposure damaging their inherent and earned goodness. They remained immortals, and touch and taste from the tree of life (Heaven where pure goodness and a lack of free will is the state of most of the beings there, except for Yahweh and a few cherubim able to work in heaven and on earth. By living and working in both worlds Yahweh and the angels were able to protect the existing kingdom of God while expanding its territorial growth on earth. Yahweh gave Adam to concept of tilling the soil to feed his growing family. He showed him where to farm. Note that the cherubim established by Yahweh as the sentry to keep humans away from the tree of life; he held a fiery revolving sword. Banishing humans from touching or eating the fruit from the tree of life might seem cruel, but again it likely was an act of love: primitive, ancient humans, nonindividuating and groupist with altruistic ethics, were not moral enough, strong-willed enough or loving enough nor wise enough to be worthy to be trusted to know heaven (the tree of life) while alive as undeveloped, unenlightened sinners and brutes wandering around freely on the earth. Were the uninitiated given free will and allowed to access directly the tree of life as uninitiated, sinful, free-willed Adam and Eve has been allowed to enjoy, the descendants of the First Couple would have failed and spread the realm of the serpent much wider, much faster, very early on. They were banished from accessing heaven, and only allowed to live as mortals on earth, because they could not resist the powerful, irresistible temptation of eating that forbidden fruit. They would be allowed to live out their mortal lives on earth, and, if freely willed to be good and serve and love Yahweh, they could in the afterlife come once again to enter the Garden of Eden. Until Yahweh and the angels of light were able to vanquish Satan, Lera and the evil spirits, then and now ruling this world, there will be no heaven on earth, no more Garden of Eden on earth, until the end of time when a good deity like Christ restores light, love and order to the inhabitants on earth. Until then, heaven must remain in heave--there the Garden of Eden has retreated to and will remain safe and untainted. Let me quote these verses from the Holy Bible (KJV): "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skin and clothed them. And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has 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 forever. Therefore, the Lord sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. so, he drove out the man; and he placed him at the east of the garden of Eden, cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." Yahweh notes that Adam now knows good and evil as a mortal, a creature of free agency, a sinner and one that has eaten from the tree of life before his time; therefore, his awareness makes him embarrassed to be naked, so he must be modest and clothed, unlike creature of pure nature that go about naked and un-self-conscious about it. It implies that Yahweh and the angels enjoy free will, have sinned a bit, and that they too wear clothes to hide their nakedness. But, they are so good due to their free-willed choice, not just immortal, kind, puppets and robots that cannot do evil, and do not understand what evil is. If evil Adam became immortal while sinful and nonindividuating, he would grow evil over a large area, perhaps expanding its realm forever. This U=Yahweh disallowed. Note that Yahweh showed Adam where to go and how to live, so Yahweh still loved and guided his human children. If the sword wielded by the cherubim was forged in heaven, then divine factories and smiths may well have existed.