Many people have heard of the Bible story about Adam & Eve and the Garden of Eden. Eden means "delight" in Hebrew and the Garden has been described as a paradise. The word "Eden" brings to mind beautiful plants, plenty of delicious fruit and friendly animals.
The life of Adam & Eve before the "fall" has been described as perfect. Their bodies were apparently perfect, they probably did not get sick, they had plenty to eat, they were not laboring under the weight of sin and may not have felt any physical pain. The Bible states that Adam & Eve walked around the Garden naked and neither felt any shame. To prevent boredom, the couple was given work tending Eden. Imagine the delight, the laughter, the joy both Adam & Eve experienced being with one another. They were two, yet somehow completed one another. But all was not perfect in Eden. God tells Adam, before Eve was even created, that all the fruit in the Garden may be eaten except the fruit from one tree.
God commands Adam not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. So despite the pleasant surroundings, the wonderful company, and the perfect weather, "Paradise" apparently had at least one rule and a monumental consequence would follow for breaking it. The Book of Genesis warns that death was the consequence from eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
Although Adam & Eve's physical needs were well met, the couple had a battle to wage in Paradise. This battle was not a physical battle, with guns and weapons, but a battle in the mind. Thousands of years later, we too continue to fight the battles of the mind.
To be continued...
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