1. God created man in His own image and likeness and placed him in Eden. In the center of the garden there was the tree of life. God’s desire was that man would choose to eat from this tree, which represents God Himself as life. By eating from it, man would receive divine life; God would enter his spirit to dwell within him and empower him to live according to His will (Genesis 1:26-27; 2:9).
2. However, Satan, God’s adversary, anticipated this and deceived man by leading Eve to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, from which God had commanded them not to eat. This tree represented deception because it promised a false discernment of good and evil. Its true intention was to turn man away from God (Genesis 3:1-5; 2 Corinthians 11:3).
3. From this man began to consider that he no longer needed God as the source of life, since he could act according to his own understanding and ability. Upon knowing good and evil, man began to think that he was capable of doing good on his own and thus of pleasing God (Psalm 14:1-3).
4. “Cain, however, once expelled from the presence of the Lord, had to found a civilization entirely devoid of God and replaced what God had previously provided in the Garden of Eden and what man had lost. He needed to build a walled city for his protection, a fortress to defend himself. He had to provide for his own sustenance and invent amusements to find joy” (Genesis 4:11-16) (Daily Food, book 4, week 3, Tuesday, p. 42).
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