Fractured Families and Divided Communities When God placed Adam in the garden, everything was good with one exception. God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18). When God created Eve and brought her to Adam, it fwas the beginning not just of marriage, but also of community. When they chose to know about evil, they were alienated from God and from each other. Adam blamed his wife for what had gone wrong, and the Bible tells us that they knew they were naked. From the moment