Part 1:  In the Garden
1.  What was the nature* of mankind before the fall?
“He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.”  Deuteronomy 32:4

Note:  God is The Master Artist.  Look at the delicate lily or the lofty redwoods.  Watch the graceful swan dance upon the water.  Listen to the dolphins echo and the robins song.  God loves us.  He filled our world with beauty, elegance, and music.  Then “God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:  and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over every fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.  So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.”  (Genesis 1:26-27)  They were God’s perfect masterpiece, without sin and inclined to good.

2.  What was Adam and Eve’s job before the fall?
“And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”  Genesis 2:15

3.  Which two special trees did God place in the Garden of Eden?
“And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”  Genesis 2:9

4.  What one thing did God say not to do?
“And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”  Genesis 2:16-17

Note:  The first special tree was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  God placed the tree in the Garden of Eden for two reasons.  First, it gave mankind the freedom of choice.  God did not want people to serve Him because they had to but rather because they wanted to.  And second, as a sign of allegiance toward God.  The tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil was God’s way of giving mankind choices.

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