Once we are passed from death unto life through Christ, we cannot deny the essential difference. No one can challenge or take this from us but there are many ways our knowledge of good and evil attempts to subtly gain power once again. Religious practices are one. They seem good but they are one of the ways our knowledge of good and evil gains back its power. Remember: you are given life from the One who IS life. Nothing we do in the flesh can add to our stature of life through Him.
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. Romans 5:14
To Adam and Eve, it seemed like such a great idea to desire the knowledge of good and evil but like all disobedient unbelief, its consequences had far reaching death effects: the next thirteen generations would suffer the knowledge of good and evil without relief.
The law given to Moses was God’s temporary picture remedy for that season of death. Then, animals gave their life as a substitute so that the reign of death could be broken but these sacrifices didn’t fully satisfy. To truly break the reign of death, the spotless Tree of Life Himself must become the perfect sacrifice.
For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were {committed} under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. Hebrews 9:13-15
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. John 5:24
Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. Romans 6:4
But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. Romans 7:6
The Law was given to bring our knowledge of good and evil to its knees. By the Law we see how hopeless it is to use our knowledge of good and evil to run from God or to gain favor with Him through our good works.
By the Tree of Life we see our need and our remedy all together, at once, in our Savior, Jesus Christ.