Genesis 3

The First Sin INTRODUCTION Adam’s Antithetical Calling Scripture calls our attention to two trees:  the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  Whereas the former had the power to perpetuate the lives of Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:22), the fruit of the latter was forbidden them. The tree of knowledge of good and evil was so called because through it Adam and Eve learned good and evil:  the good (fellowship with God) when not partaking of it, and the evil when partaking of it;...