If I say, “Now we can eat from the tree of life in the Garden of Eden”,
and “We have to eat from it to get eternal life”,
someone might be surprised.

He may have been asking, “Can we eat from the tree of life? Is it not in heaven?”

In reading the Bible, the Book of Genesis,
there were two trees in the middle of Garden of Eden,
which were the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Adam and Eve were allowed to eat from any tree in the garden,
but banned from eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
As God commanded, when they eat of it, they would surely die.

However desperately they violated the prohibition and ate from it.
As a result, they were driven out of the Garden of Eden and destined to die.

Ge 3:22~24 And the LORD God said, “He must not be allowed to reach out his hand
and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim
and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the Tree of Life.

Since Adam and Eve committed sins,
all mankind became the mortal being and are destined to die someday.

God Elohim have pity on us and came down to the earth in the flesh
to give us the tree of life from which anyone eats and live forever.

And God Elohim gave us the Passover
that is the reality of the tree of life
through which the mortal beings eat the Jesus’ flesh and drink the Jesus’ blood,
and get eternal life.