The first time I heard about Adam and Eve in children's Sunday school, I remember thinking that the devil was right when he told Eve that she was not going to die, because once she ate of the fruit, she still lived. Obviously, to a child it is unfathomable to think that there could be another kind of death besides the one where your heart stops beating. The reality is that, at the very moment Adam and Eve partook of the fruit, they both died spiritually and a dimension of suffering and hardship was introduced into creation. It was far worse than physical death, for spiritual death separates one from the holy presence of God. It bends our hearts towards unspeakable evil and makes us hopelessly inadequate for righteous attainment (Jeremiah 17:9, Isaiah 64:6). Now, I want to soon deal with the subject of Adam and Eve's initial responses concerning The Fall , but until then let's focus on the implications of Genesis 3:6, which reads, “And when the woman saw that the tree ...