Tree Of Life (Empath stories)

The Tree Of Life is a tree that appears in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. According to Tapper, it is the tree that God had planted in the Garden Of Eden which He would allow Adam and Eve to eat from as long as they were faithful not to eat from the Tree Of Knowledge. Unfortunately, because Lucifer in the form of a snake had lured Eve into eating from the Tree of Knowledge, which in turn she led Adam into eating, God had banished both Adam and Eve from the garden and protected the Tree Of Life with a flaming sword. Tapper said that whoever eats from the Tree Of Life will be able to live forever, and the reason God prevented Adam and Eve from doing so after they ate of the Tree Of Knowledge is so that mankind will not live forever in sin, and thus God would not permit anyone but people who are forgiven of sin by Jesus Christ to eat from the tree.