What happened to the Tree of Knowledge after Adam and Eve ate the apple?

Answer 1

Its just a story in an old book of mythology. The answer to your question is the same as the answer to 'what happens to Charon after you cross the river Styx.' The answer is Charon is a myth, the same as Adam and Eve and the tree are myths.

Answer 2

God made the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden:-.

Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

God told Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or they would die:-

Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

(Note that God did not tell them not to eat the tree of life - they were free to eat that but they didn't].

Adam Clarke's in his "Commentary on The Bible" on Gen 2:17 says:-

Of the tree of the knowledge - thou shalt not eat - This .... was given as a test of obedience, and a proof of his being in a dependent, probationary state. ...[W]hile constituted lord of this lower world, he should know that he was only God's vicegerent, and must be accountable to him ...[Otherwise he] necessarily loses sight of his origin and end, and is capable of any species of wickedness. As God is sovereign, he has a right to give to his creatures what commands he thinks proper. ...Man must ever feel God as his sovereign, and act under his authority, which he cannot do unless he have a rule of conduct. This rule God gives: and it is no matter of what kind it is, as long as obedience to it is not beyond the powers of the creature who is to obey. ...

Thou shalt surely die - "moth tamuth"; Literally, a death thou shalt die; or, dying thou shalt die. Thou shalt not only die spiritually, by losing the life of God, but from that moment thou shalt become mortal, and shalt continue in a dying state till thou die. This we find literally accomplished; every moment of man's life may be considered as an act of dying, till soul and body are separated. ...

Gen 3:22-24 KJV And the LORD God said, "Behold, the man is 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 for ever:" (23) Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. (24) So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Adam Clarke's in his "Commentary on The Bible" on Gen 3:22 says:-

Behold, the man is become as one of us - ...[O]ur translation...is opposed to the original Hebrew ... The Hebrew [for "is"] has "hayah", which is the third person preterite tense, and signifies "was", not "is". ... These lead us to a very different sense, and...the following paraphrase, which should not be lightly regarded: "And the Lord God said, The man who was like one of us in purity and wisdom, is now fallen and robbed of his excellence; he has added to the knowledge of the good, by his transgression the knowledge of the evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live for ever in this miserable state, I will remove him, and guard the place lest he should re-enter. Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden," etc. ...[H]is removal from the tree of life was in mercy, to prevent a second temptation. He before imagined that he could gain an increase of wisdom by eating of the tree of knowledge, and Satan would be disposed to tempt him to endeavor to elude the sentence of death, by eating of the tree of life. ...[H]e broke the Divine command in the expectation of being like God to know good from evil;...

In Gen_1:26, Gen_1:27, we have seen man in the perfection of his nature, the dignity of his office, and the plenitude of his happiness. Here [in Genesis chapter 3] we find the same creature, but stripped of his glories and happiness, so that the word "man" no longer conveys the same ideas it did before. "Man" and "intellectual excellence" were before so intimately connected as to appear inseparable; "man" and "misery" are now equally so....

[Genesis 1 shows] The human being in his excellence, capable of knowing, loving, and glorifying his Maker.

[Genesis 3 shows] The human being in his fallen state, capable of and committing all kinds of wickedness. ...

God removed the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden from the Eden out of kindness as otherwise fallen and unconverted Mankind would live in misery for eternity.

However, God will give the Tree of Life to Christian overcomers, to the converted:-

Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God."

Adam Clarke's in his "Commentary on The Bible" on Revelation 2:7 says:-

...To him that overcometh - To him who continues steadfast in the faith... nor is led away by the error of the wicked; will I give to eat of the tree of life. As he who conquered his enemies had... also a reward; so here a great reward is promised ... to the conqueror: and as in the Grecian games,...the conqueror was crowned with the leaves of some tree; here it is promised that they should eat of the fruit of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God; that is, that they should have a happy and glorious immortality. ...God made the tree of life to grow out of the midst of the garden [of Eden]; and it is very likely that by eating the fruit of this tree the immortality of Adam was secured, and on this it was made dependent. When Adam transgressed, he was expelled from this garden, and no more permitted to eat of the tree of life; hence he became necessarily mortal. This tree...[is] restored to man by the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Christ. The tree of life ... mean[s] the immortality of the soul, and a final state of blessedness. ...

Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city [ie New Jerusalem].

The ISBE ("International Standard Bible Encylopedia") says on the entry for "TREE OF LIFE":

1. The Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden:

The tree was in the midst of the Garden, and its fruit of such a nature as to produce physical immortality (Ge 2:9; 3:22). After guiltily partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the sinful tendency having thus been implanted in their natures, the man and woman are driven forth from the Garden lest they should eat of the tree of life and live forever (Ge 3:22). The idea seems to be that, if they should eat of it and become immortalized in their sinful condition, it would be an unspeakable calamity to them and their posterity. For sinful beings to live forever upon earth would be inconceivably disastrous, for the redemption and development of the race would be an impossibility in that condition. Earth would soon have been a hell with sin propagating itself forever. To prevent such a possibility they were driven forth, cherubim were placed at the entrance of the Garden, the flame of a sword revolving every way kept the way of the tree of life, and this prevented the possibility of man possessing a physical immortality. It is implied that they had not yet partaken of this tree and the opportunity is now forever gone. Immortality must be reached in some other way...

Man had tried to become immortal through eating the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but it is not known what happened to it: God probably destroyed it, but He may have kept it to give to Satan later: the Bible doesn't say.

Answer 3

A:After they had eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil:

1. Adam and Eve became god-like (Genesis 3:22: "And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us..."). The only difference between them and God (or the gods) was that they must die. By eating of the Tree of Life, they would then also be immortal. In Genesis 3:24, God drove out the man and placed at the entrance to the Garden of Eden, cherubim and a flaming sword to keep [block] the way of the Tree of Life.
2. Adam and Eve had become aware of their mortality, making immortality at once a conscious desire and a known impossibility.

Answer 4

Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:9). After they had eaten the fruit, we find God saying (3:22) that they were now like one of the gods - except that they were not immortal. If they also ate of the Tree of Life, they would be immortal and entirely equal to the gods . It was against this eventuality that God had to banish Adam and Eve from the Garden and place a cherub and a flaming sword there, to block the way back to the Tree of Life. Reading the biblical account literally, the cherub and the flaming sword also equally prevented any other person coming back to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Or we can take the advice of Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) who says we should regard the story as a mythical yet realistic portrait of permanent truths about our humanity, rather than as a historical account of persons who led an idealised existence. There was no Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Answer 5

The Tree of Knowledge was both a regular tree (Talmud, Berakhot 40a) and something spiritual, since in it was partially manifested one of the upper worlds (commentaries, Zohar 35a). After the sin, the Garden and the tree remained but were destroyed in the Flood.

Answer 6

Answer

Immediately after Adam and Eve ate the fruit they felt their nudity and after that they had been sent to this earth as a punishment for their sin of disobedience