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God placed Adam in the garden. It was a home of happiness and peace. He was put in charge of the garden and given authority and responsibility over God’s creation.
God provided this paradise garden to Adam by His free grace, the same God that molded him, provided for his every need. But Adam had his part to do too. He had to cultivate and maintain the garden God gave him. Paradise was not a place exempt from working.
Adam was told he could eat freely the fruit of most any tree in the garden with the sole exception of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God told him that if he did eat from it he would surely die. Adam was given a consequence for this action.
Adam had only one law to keep and this tree was the sign and symbol of what was required. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil represented right and wrong, obedience or sin. This tree was the counterpart to the tree of life. God had said, “for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.” The certainty of death did not mean immediate death. One of the penalties for this action was being barred from the tree of life, and all the happiness that Adam knew, in misery he would die. Immortality depended on being in God’s presence. Therefore, Adam would inevitably die as all men do.
God gave Adam a garden of grace (God’s favor). In life, we are given the gift of God’s grace too. God made a plan of salvation for us talked about in Romans, “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Just like Adam, we are offered a choice. We can believe in Jesus and receive eternal life, or not believe and receive a penalty of death: “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
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