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The significance of eating in the Bible is to take something that is outside of us and receive it into us so that our insides are affected.
God uses the picture of eating to indicate man's insides can be affected by what he takes into his being.
Man was created innocent and neutral between so sources that were as "food". That is two main sources that if he took into himself his inward being would be affected.
Above "the tree of life" represented God Himself as the divine life that can be taken into man's created life.
Above "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" represented the Satanic spirit that sought to be independent from God.
God uses the picture of eating to indicate man's insides can be affected by what he takes into his being.
"And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food,
the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." (Gen. 2:9)
"And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may eat freely,
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of it you shall not eat; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." (Gen. 2:16,17)
Man was created innocent and neutral between so sources that were as "food". That is two main sources that if he took into himself his inward being would be affected.
Above "the tree of life" represented God Himself as the divine life that can be taken into man's created life.
Above "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" represented the Satanic spirit that sought to be independent from God.