knowledge and of their power to bring about good and evil: “The eyes of both of them were opened [‘to know good and evil’/‘obtain wisdom’]” (Gen 3:5–7). However, this new state, with their bearing the sin and guilt of their actions, includes profound absences in their lives where there once was teeming life. The primary one relates to the absence of shalom with God, which then subsequently flows on to negative realities that occupy life’s natural location and orientation.74