Purity Yet Untainted

The garden that is spoken of in The Bible is a real place on earth with land features and rivers described and named. While the exact location of Eden is left to speculation, it is described as being east of Canaan, Israel's later home. Eden is spectacular, mountainous, fertile and from this land flowed a river that divided into four branches, watering the garden and surrounding areas. The prominent present feeling from this account is that from Eden, beauty and fertility enrich the whole world and Gods design is such that all good blessings flow from His Creation.  With man established in the garden and his work being to watch over it, God gives this warning "You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden-except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  If you eat it's fruit, you are sure to die." This is an ominous warning and upon reading it, I wonder at mans possible reaction? At this point in mans existence, there is no cause for alarm nor is there any notion of fear~ he is in the Presence of God and innocence is purity untainted. A child trusts it's parent and has no reason to think, sense or feel otherwise. Until next time in The Bible~that's when God creates woman...