The Word of God is Life to those who find them and health to all their flesh. . . . . . Prov 4:22
Man became an outcast from the garden, with no legal means of coming to God.
Genesis 3:24 "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. "
gal means of coming to God.