"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Genesis 2:17).
It was the easiest command God could give.
There must have been hundreds of varieties of wonderful and delicious fruit and this tree didn't necessarily have a different kind of fruit from any other trees. God is not robbing them of something. They weren't going to miss out on anything. It was a test of their obedience and their trust in God. It was just this tree-don't eat of this tree!
"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:4,5).
Eve did not have the same sin nature as you and I, as she had yet to sin. The environment was perfect. Everything about her life was perfect. Yet Satan introduces this thought and she takes it. She wanted what God told her she was not to have. She was deceived into thinking that this physical fruit has some capability of making a person wise that none of the other trees had.
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Psalm 111:10). and the wise thing would have been for her to obey God.
She was deceived. She believed the serpent rather than God. She ate.
Man (Adam and Eve) were made in the image of God and now they have fallen from that image because they have rebelled against God, and the spirit of God departs from them and they begin to slowly die physically.
This is our human condition. We need a remedy. Jesus Christ is God's answer to our problem. Him alone...not our wisdom or our good intentions, only Him.
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