When God asked Adam and Eve, "Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat?"

            Adam reasoned and quickly passed the blame on to his wife Eve.

                    After losing their spiritual relationship with God, they began to reason and justify themselves.

When Adam and Eve lost their spiritual relationship with God, their
soul-realm emotions became fearful.

        Before they ate, their emotions were at peace

In Genesis 3:8 Adam and Eve hid themselves from the presence of God in the Garden.

        They had enjoyed His presence beore they ate, but now they were afraid.

Fear had replaced love.
Condemnation had replaced confidence.

Adam and Eve were naked before they ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, but were not aware that nakedness was needed to be covered.

                   Their conscience did not condemn them; they had no knowledge of good or evil.

After Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in Genesis 3:6, they became body consciencious.

            They knew they were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together and covered themselves.

The Bible says that the life of the flesh is in the blood,
in the Old Testament Leviticus 17:11,14.

          But in the New Testament, "the spirit is life because of righteousness."

                 In Romans 8:10, death is the absence of the spirit of life.

We might think it wasn't fair, but Adam and Eve had all they needed in their knowledge of God and their fellowship with Him.

It wasn't necessary for knowledge of good and evil.

Adam and Eve didn't know that what they were about to do was evil, because they had no knowledge of evil before they ate.

God didn't want Adam and Eve to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

God knew that they would lose their intuitive knowledge of Him and lose their communion with Him.

The knowledge of good and evil,
        isn't about intellectual knowledge that comes from
        logic or memorization,
        it isn't about judgments or moral situations,
        it is about a spiritual function.

When Adam ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, he programmed his conscience to know good and evil.

Before then, he had no knowledge of good and evil.

Adam didn't die physically that day.

          There was some influence on his soul-realm, his emotions, intellect and will.

         He died in his spirit-realm, the intuitive knowledge, communion with God and conscience.

God drove Adam and Eve out of the garden to prevent them from
           eating of the Tree of Life and living forever.

           The Tree of Life was a tree that would give them eternal life physically.

Adam and Eve contined to live physically since God talked to them

and drove them out of the Garden

after the day they had eaten and died.

When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they died;
          God said they would.

They didn't die physically,
          they continued to live even after they fell.

Adam chose to yield to the temptation.

          They both chose to eat of the tree.
          They both disobeyed God.
          They both fell and suffered the consequences.

Adam had only one negative instruction from God.

          Had He chosen [with his free will] to ignore the serpent 
                  and call on God, he never would have fallen.

Adam did not have physical eternal life.

          The Tree of Life in the middle of the garden
would have given him physical eternal life.

                He was free to eat of it, Genesis 2:15.

          God even commanded him to eat of the trees of the garden,
except the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

In this real, touchable form and likeness of God,
    Adam had a body that was whole and healthy.

          Adam, in the image of God, had an active intellect in his soul realm; he named all the beasts of the field.

                           He had perfect peace with no shame.

His will was free to choose to take part in God's creation with Him.
His soul realm was whole.

In man's intuitive knowledge in the spirit
and his spirit to Spirit communion with God,
man didn't have to have his conscience programmed
with knowledge of good and evil.

Adam and Eve didn't have the knowledge of good and evil that God had.
                 They really didn't need it because they were not called to judge any matters.
                 They were called to fellowship with God, to know Him and to obey Him in one command.

Man was created after the likeness and image of God Himself
and they had a free will.

               But they still had a dependence on God.

If man had been made robots without free will,
temptation wouldn't have had any effect on him.

Man's freedom of choice was a
        freedom to choose God or to choose self.

That made man vulnerable to temptation.

With the freedom of choice,
man was also given the freedom to be creative.

God created man with a freedom of choice.

God took a chance
but He had to take that chance
if His creation was to agape love Him
and glorify Him.

If man had no freedom of choice,
     he could not have a willing heart;
          he could not exercise agape love
               nor be willing to glorify God.

Agape,

the God kind of love,

can only come from a willingness,

from a choice of a free will.

In the state of being in the image and likeness of God, man had the freedom of choice.

          It was necessary for God to create him with that freedom if man were to love and glorify Him.

God made man in his likeness [tangible]

and image [intangible]

according to Genesis 1:26.

Adam's body was bone, flesh and blood.

His soul functioned with an intellect, will and emotions.

His spirit had an intuitive knowledge of God,
       a conscience that knew only good
              and communion of spirit to spirit fellowship with God.