The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden By Rosemarie Adcock 48" x 48" oil    The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;  but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.” Genesis 2:16-17 Adam and Eve had a perfect environment provided by God, with one instruction, not to eat the fruit from a single tree found in the center of the Garden, lest they die. God withheld nothing from them but the fruit of one tree, represented here as an apple in Adam’s hand, although the text doesn’t say what kind of fruit it was. The crafty serpent tricked Eve by casting doubt on God’s character, essentially calling God a liar, and told them surely they would not die. Adam and Eve chose to believe the lie instead of God. Eve took the fruit and ate it, and gave some to Adam, who was the one who had received God’s original command; nonetheless, he also ate it. In His warning, God referre