God planted many trees in the Garden of Eden. What all do we know about this tree? Why in the world would God create a conifer doomsday device in the middle of paradise? And what didn’t Sunday school teach us about this tree? What Is the Tree of Knowledge? They do and earn eternal separation because of their sin. And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”Īs the story goes, the devil, shaped like a serpent tempts Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, to have knowledge like God. Genesis 2:15-17: “ The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. As a refresher, we’ll include a passage below from Genesis about this tree found smack dab in the middle of the Garden of Eden. Even if we didn’t have a church background, our pop culture seems full of references of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit and dooming the world to plunge into a sinful state. Many of us learned about the tree of knowledge of good and evil from an early age.
