The Two Trees

Consider these verses from Genesis:

God planted a garden in Eden and made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food.  The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen 2.8-9).

Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die (Gen 2.16-17).

The woman said, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it, nor shall you touch it lest you die’”

The serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die for God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil”

The woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and also gave to her husband (Gen 3.2-6)

God asked them if they had eaten from the tree which He had commanded that they should not eat (Gen 3.11).  Then followed the curses (Gen 3.17-19).

Then God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, to know good and evil.  And now, lest he put his hand out and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever” – therefore God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken (Gen 3.23) – and guarded the way to the tree of life (v24).