BIBLE COMMENTARY / Genesis 2: 9

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.

– Everything that God created was good and beneficial to humankind (Ecclesiastes 3: 11), but because of human’s sins that they turned unpredictable and dangerous (Romans 8: 21-22).
– The Scripture also lets us know that whatever God wants to happen, it will be right there because of His will and His everlasting power (Revelation 4: 11). He created the whole universe by His words only (Genesis 1: 3).
– Every kind of fruit in Eden was good for food. Before Adam ate the forbidden fruit, death was not present in Adam’s life (Genesis 2: 17). He was not destined for physical death.
– God only forbade Adam to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Before knowing how to distinguish between good and evil, there is no sin (Romans 4: 15), because according to God’s law, it’s a sin when a person knows what is good and not acting on it (James 4: 17). By this law, every child who died in early age will be inherited the Kingdom of Heaven with God (Matthew 19: 14).

QUOTED VERSES:

GENESIS 1: 3 – And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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.

ECCLESIASTES 3: 11 – He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

MATTHEW 19: 14 – But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

ROMANS 4: 15 – Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

ROMANS 8: 21-22 – Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

JAMES 4: 17 – Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

REVELATION 4: 11 – Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.