The Tree of Life
| Description: | The back walls of the baptistery form a mural of the Tree of Life.
Genesis describes the Tree of Life as it relates to original sin, and the knowledge of good and evil. The consumption of its fruit being tantamount to death in the Garden of Eden.
Revelation 22:2 shows the Tree of Life as a source of nourishment for the healing of nations. Access to the Tree of Life is linked the drowning of Adam and being reborn in Christ, “baptized into a death like His … we shall surely be united in a resurrection like His”(Romans 6:1-5).
The three intertwined circles symbolize eternal life, and the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The new life, symbolized in the Tree of Life, begins now and continues through eternity. |
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