In the Beginning
Sitting in the garden watching the birds as they play amongst the trees, reminded me of the day that Eve was led into temptation, and picked an apple from the tree.
It started with the Serpent...
Now the Serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
And the Serpent said unto the woman, yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the Garden?
And the woman said unto the Serpent, we may eat of the fruits of the trees of the garden:
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, ye shall not eat of it, neither shall yea touch it, lest ye die.
And the Serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die:
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit there of, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
(Genesis 3:1-6 KJV)
From the beginning of mankind we have all been tempted, and temptation is not from God. God never tempts us to do anything, but he does give us free will. The will of good should we wish to follow that or the Will of being tempted like Eve and follow the will of being bad, in other words evil.
However some will say picking an apple off the tree is harmless. Today it is, but God had instructed Adam and his wife Eve, and put his trust in them that by taking man, and putting him into the garden of Eden to dress it and keep it.
And the Lord commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou may est freely eat:
But of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, thou shalt not eat of it.
(Genesis 2:16-17 KJV)
It clearly shows that by eating from this tree both Adam and Eve had not obeyed God, and did not trust him. Because had they not eaten from the tree of knowledge, (the apple tree). Then temptation would have been resisted. Man would have resisted the serpent and trusted the Lord.
