There was nothing about unfallen man that could enable him to read the mind of God concerning His plan. For example, the only way for Adam and Eve to know they would die if they ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was for God to tell them. This is special revelation. Kenneth Kantzer stated the case well when he said: “Special revelation was no afterthought introduced to circumvent the fall of man, but was a part of the original divine economy. Only as a result of the curse