nature, nothing evil. God created the garden and the people in the garden “very good.” Then Satan came on the scene, and notice the approach he used. His aim was to get Adam and Eve to question God’s Word. First he tried a big lie. “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” (Gen. 3:1, emphasis added). That was obviously false, so Eve told him that they could eat fruit from all the trees of the garden except the one in the middle of the garden; if they ate from that tree