One of my favorite poets, Robert Frost, began a poem with, “‘Something there is that doesn’t love a wall’ and ends with ‘good fences make good neighbors.’” The wall keeps falling down, so the poet and his neighbor meet every spring to repair the wall.
But that’s nothing new. Just after creation in the garden of Eden, God very carefully and clearly explained where the walls were built — there was one around the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve were to neither eat nor touch the fruit from that particular tree. They could eat of any other tree in the garden.
I have a question, and it might be the most important question in the Bible! Why did God create the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? The answer to that question is the key to our relationship with God, and I’ve never heard anyone talk about it!
