Genesis 3:22-24 (The Living Bible)

[joannaingram84]

Then the Lord said, "Now that the man has become as we are, knowing good from bad, what if he eats the fruit of the Tree of Life and lives forever?" So the Lord God banished him forever from the Garden of Eden, and sent him out to farm the ground from which he had been taken. Thus God expelled him, and placed mighty angels at the east of the garden of Eden, with a flaming sword to guard the entrance to the Tree of Life.

[falcon9]

Then the Lord said, "Now that the man has become as we are, knowing good from bad, what if he eats the fruit of the Tree of Life and lives forever?" So the Lord God banished him forever from the Garden of Eden, and sent him out to farm the ground from which he had been taken. Thus God expelled him, and placed mighty angels at the east of the garden of Eden, with a flaming sword to guard the entrance to the Tree of Life.

Sounds like closing the barn door after the cattle have escaped along with being a vindictively-insecure 'deity', (keep 'em fat, dumb and happy?).

[lucky382001]

Every good parent has rules.

[gramev64]

God gives us rules to go by, if we don't, its like anything else, we pay the consequences.

[falcon9]

God gives us rules to go by,

Not if one doesn't believe in such a faith-based assertion.

if we don't, its like anything else, we pay the consequences.

It isn't like "anything else" since non-mythical law-breaking can have reality-based consequences.