God created human life as a spiritually intelligent organism that was not subject to death, but was granted immortality. Adam was created as a mirror image of God. From this it is impossible to taste the sweet without having first tasted the sour (unknown). In my opinion this is one of many lessons learned by reading Genesis "The fall of man" (Yancy 5). I believe from this twisted story of betrayal and deceit that we gain our knowledge of mankind's free will and Gods intensions regarding this human capacity. There is one school of thought which believes that life is mapped out with no regard for individual choice while contrary belief tells us that mankind is capable of free will and therefore has control over his own life and the consequences of his actions. The story of Adam and Eve confirms that God gave mankind the ability to think for himself and the skills needed to take responsibility for those thoughts and actions that they produce.
             Within the Garden of Eden, God placed two special trees in the middle, each quite different in its purpose. Both played an integral role in the story of mans beginning. First, the tree of life defines immortality (4). Then you have the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Armstrong 19), which was the only tree God imposed a contingency on. According to scriptures the lord commanded, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die" (Kugal 74). Are we to assume that knowledge is perhaps more important and therefore more closely guarded than life?
             When I first read this it seemed to me to be true. However upon analyzing more closely, Gods intention was not to imply that knowledge was more significant than life, but instead that it cannot be appreciated without first possessing knowledge of both good and evil. Sin
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