while ignoring his Word. They are, of course, breaking the rules. God gave them a clear command, “Don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (see Genesis 2:17). They disobeyed. But it was not simply the rules they were rejecting. It was the right of the Creator to give them the rules. Even more, they were rejecting the wisdom of the Creator who designed them. (And that was a really dumb thing to do.) Think for a moment: Why are there rules? Imagine playing baseball with an umpire who