A Small Beginning of the New Obedience

When Adam and Eve ate a piece of fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, it may have looked to us as a minor sin. It may even look strange that a "little sin" like this should call for death and everlasting punishment in the lake of fire. But if we realize that it was an act of hatred against God; a denial of His right to forbid man to do this or that; an act whereby man sought to dethrone God; and, as the devil told them through the serpent, an act whereby they sought to become gods;...