The Fall of Man, Part 1 (Onward Christian Soldiers #60)

Genesis 2:15-17: "And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 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."
  
In a previous lesson we learned that Adam was created in the image of God. As he came forth from the hand of his Creator, Adam was sinless. His nature was pure. He did not even have a tendency to sin. However, it was possible for Adam to sin because he had a free will. He was free to choose to obey God or to disobey Him.
 
God knew that Adam needed a wife, so He caused a deep sleep to come upon Adam. While he slept, God took a rib from Adam's side and with it formed a wife for him. Adam named her Eve, which means "mother of all living."
 
God blessed Adam and Eve and said to them,   “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” God placed them in a beautiful garden called "Eden." It was Adam's duty to care for the garden.
 
There were many different kinds of trees in the garden, but two trees were different from all the others. One of these was named "the tree of life" and the other, "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Adam and Eve were permitted to eat freely of every tree in the garden except one — "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." God specifically commanded them not to eat of this tree and warned them, “in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

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