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THE PARADISE OF LIFE RENEWED
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was why God placed in the midst of it the tree of
life as a symbol of the right to everlasting life .
-Genesis 2 :9 ; 3 :22-24 ; 4 :1, 2, 25 .
The person behind this loss of paradise for
man was the invisible caretaker whom God placed
over man . But he became ambitious, turned
treacherous, and led humankind into sin and rebellion
with him . To begin with, he was a protecting
cherub, perfect in the day of his creation by
Jehovah God. In a lamentation God's prophet indirectly
addresses him : "Thus saith the Lord God :
Thou wast the seal of resemblance, full of wisdom,
and perfect in beauty. Thou wast in the pleasures
of the paradise of God : . . . Thou a cherub
stretched out, and protecting, and I set thee in
the holy mountain of God, thou hast walked in
the midst of the stones of fire . Thou wast perfect
in thy ways from the day of thy creation,
until iniquity was found in thee . By the multitude
of thy merchandise, thy inner parts were
filled with iniquity, and thou hast sinned ." Ezechiel
28 :11-16, Douay As the earthly paradise
was lost to mankind by the treachery of this
cherub who turned devil, so God's promise in
Eden, that his seed by his "woman" would bruise
the serpent's head, carried with it the restoration
of paradise . It would be for mankind to enjoy in
perfection forever under God's kingdom by his
Seed .
The Paradise of Eden in its original dimensions
continued on earth until the global flood
4 . a By whose treachery was paradise lost for mankind?
b Hence what assurance did God's Edenic
promise carry with it?
5 . Why have men's efforts with the soil failed to convert
earth into a paradise? Why was Canaan's paradiselike
state lost?