center of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God says we must not eat of it or even touch it, or we will die” (Gen. 3:3). Notice, though, that in her zeal to defend God’s character she stretches the truth. God did not prohibit touching the tree; only eating its fruit. She, in essence, provides us the first example of “fencing the law”—that is, making human rules that guard us from breaking the divine rule. “If God doesn’t want us to get drop-down drunk (compare Prov. 23:29–35), then I won’t