If Adam had not fallen, he would have become a perfected man, attaining the Tree of Life, forming a garden around the Tree of Life (the Garden of Eden) which would have been the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. But Adam fell and God placed the cherubim and flaming sword at the entrance of the Garden to block the way to the Tree of Life (Gen. 3:24). Accordingly, the purpose of creation remained unfulfilled and Adam became a false Tree of Life (fallen man) whose descendants were also false trees of life.