“image of God” and are told to rule over the whole world. God tells them that they may eat from any tree in the garden of Eden, except one—the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The word “knowledge” used here is derived from the Hebrew word yada (from where, I suppose, the all-knowing Star Wars character Yoda gets his name). But the word has a flexible meaning. It can mean “to experience,” “to choose,” “to determine,” and, on occasion, “to have sex”—hence the expression “to know a woman in the