Most of us were taught even from childhood that Eve ate the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden. She took a bite from an apple. This is what started man down the path of sin.

Although this very brief synopsis is true, there is more detail that can be gleaned from the Bible about this event. Using the King James version of the Bible and a Strong's concordance using the Hebrew and Greek dictionaries we will attempt to bring out some additional details that will shed quite a bit of light not only on this single event but will make it much easier to understand much more of the Bible then before. Each time we make a important point we will provide supporting documentation for that point.

Creation of Adam & Eve.

God also gave Adam and Eve but one simple commandment:

"Genesis 2:17 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."

At this point I must explain that there were two trees in the Garden of Eden, one was the tree of life, the other was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

"Genesis: 2:9 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."

As you can tell from Gen. 2:9, God has given Adam every tree that is pleasand to sight, and good for food. But there were a couple of other trees in the garden as well, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

I have to point out here that God often refferes to people as trees:

Ezekiel 31:3-5
31:3		Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
31:4		The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
31:5		Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
Ezekiel 31:8-9
31:8		The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
31:9		I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
Revelation 11:3-4
11:3		And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
11:4		These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth

Incident in the garden.
Here is where we are going to get into an area that may challenge some readers. From childhood, most of us, including myself, were taught that Eve ate an apple and gave to Adam, and that was the sin that caused all the trouble. I have read some fairly detailed accounts of exactly how this (eating of the apple) was a sin. But now lets look at another teaching here, and I will try to verify everything as we walk through these events.

The serpent and the tree of the knowledge of good and evile, these are one in the same being. First lets look at the serpent, the serpent was able to talk and it was subtil, the serpent, as described in the book of Revelation is none other than Satan!

Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

As you can see, "The serpent" is one of Satan's names. Also, as I demonstrated above, God referrs to people as trees. Who other than Satan could be the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil?" It even points out in Revelation 12:9 that that old serpent deceiveth the whole world, this more than qualifies him to be called subtil.

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

In the Garden of Eden, the tree of life was Christ and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was none othen than Satan himself.

As the serpent (Satan), which is one of God's most perfect and beautiful creations:

Cain killed Able.

Cain banished from the garden.