the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Gen. 2:17). We don’t know many details about this tree. We don’t know exactly what made this tree so special or why God prohibited them from eating its fruit as opposed to that of the hundreds of others in the garden. And, with all due respect to John Milton, author of the classic Paradise Lost, we don’t know if it was an apple that Eve ate. What we do know about this tree and God’s