by Zarrah O'Curren

Created on: September 22, 2008

Is the Tree of Life a real thing? YES! The Tree of Life is Jesus Christ the Son of The living God who lives. As a Latter-day Saint otherwise known as a Mormon we are taught this principle when Lehi tells his vision of the Tree of Life to his family; in the Book of Mormon. The Tree of Life symbolizes Jesus Christ and his love for all mankind. It is a testimony of his atonement and the joy that we can have when we partake of that atonement. So you can say that the Tree of Life is a type or a metaphore of Jesus Christ.

When Christ was walking with his diciples he said that he was the way and the life. In the Gospel of John, which is John's testimony, he said that Christ was the life. Chirst has been referred to as many things. He has been called the bread of life, notice the word life is brought up again. He is called the living water. Again he is referred to as life or living. Christ in that sense is the Living gospel and the living light. It doesn't ever refer to him as the dead tree... meaning he is still alive. He is now God and he is our midiator. He atoned and suffered for all our sins. The atonement is the basic principle to all these refrences so Christ is our Lord and our living light. Therefore, summing this all up, Chirst is still and always will be the tree of Life. In the Book Of Mormon Lehi sees a dream. In this dream he finds a spaces field, the trails and paths of life on earth. Beyond the field is the tree of life, the love of God (Jesus Christ). He coomes to it and tastes the fruit thereof, the plan of salvation. He states that the fruit brings to him the sweetest joy and that he wanted to share it was his family. He looks for his sons and he saw Nephi, Sariah, and Sam. He beckons them and they come, tasting the fruit thereof. Then he looks for Laman and Lemuel. He finds them walking away from him. Then he sees the iron rod, the word of God, and serveral people hanging on to it or letting go occationally. He sees a river and people drowning in it, the river of wickedness or filthiness. He sees a spacious building which is the way of the world, not the way of God. So any who that is the story.

In the bible it mentions the tree of life more then once but it mentions different kinds. Some refer to that day and age. The tree baring twelve types of fruit are the twelve tribes which are spoke of over and over again throughout the old & new testiment. It also states many times the fruit of the tree of life, or the plan of salvation, the atonement. In

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