"The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden— except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.” (Genesis 2:15-17 NLT)
The creation of man can be translated as a love story written by God Himself. So visible in the care and prestige when He methodically shaped him. God's careful attention and love when He formed man and breathed the breath of life into him is very apparent in the mere fact that He formed Adam and not simple created him. He took time with him forming him and shaping him into a perfect vessel.
Once the completion of His creation was approved by God Himself, He placed man in the Garden of Eden.
Eden was the place God created, where He could fellowship with Adam and Eve. It is apparent that God would often come down and fellowship with them. I can imagine that In the cool of the day, Adam and his wife would hear the voice of God walking in the garden. This however all changed in chapter 3 when they decide to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The antonym of good is evil and therefore the antonym of evil has to be good. So if Adam and Eve had no knowledge of either good nor evil, what did they have knowledge of? Adam and Eve simply knew the will of God. They did as God instructed them to do. God told Adam to name all the animals and he did as he was told. The fellowship that God had with Adam is a fellowship that God wanted to bring back with the new Adam, our Savior. So in essence God didn't warn Adam about eating from the tree of Knowledge of good and evil. He warned him about leave His perfect will.
Let's go back to Eden. Back to the will of God.
God bless you
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