A. God provided beautiful trees – “pleasant to the sight”
B. God provided nourishing trees – “good for food”
II. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil (2:15-17; 3:1-7)
A. Eve noticed three things about the tree (3:6)
B. What is the “knowledge of good and evil”?
III. The tree of life (3:22-24)
A. A tree that made perpetual life possible
B. This tree is still available to us, but not in the “here & now” – it is in “the Paradise of God” (Revelation 2:7)
C. How can we have access to it? (Revelation 22:14)
A. Focuses on the negative
B. Suggests we can interpret what God says however we please
C. Creates a false distance between man and his Lord
D. Even Eve adds her own prohibition – “nor shall you touch it” (cf. Genesis 2:16-17)
II. The sin (Genesis 3:6)
A. Eve was deceived (John 8:44; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; 15:33; Galatians 6:7-8; James 1:12-17)
B. Adam was not innocent – he was “with her”
III. Who is to blame? (Genesis 3:8-13)
A. Adam blamed both God and Eve (James 1:13)
B. Eve blamed Satan (1 Corinthians 10:13)
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But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized. (Acts 8:12)
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