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WHY IS THE TREE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GARDEN?

Have you ever wondered why God gave us desires and considered some of them a sin?

Why did God give us desires and then consider some of them sins? You’ve probably thought about this. Usually, this question is accompanied by another: Why did God put the tree in the middle of the garden if He knew that Adam and Eve would eat the fruit?

Now, in the Garden of Eden, God placed only one tree they could not touch. Of all the other trees in the garden, they could eat. God gave man authority over all the earth and gave everything to man’s power except that tree.

Today, that single ban has become thousands of prohibitions, not on the part of God but on the part of man himself. Now that man does everything he wants, follows all his desires, does not care about God and does what comes to his mind, how many prohibitions are there in the world? Before sin, there was only one prohibition for man in the world; after sin, we can say that there are millions.

For example, doctors often forbid people to eat certain foods due to health problems. Or, how many times is a person forbidden from doing what they like because there are laws that prohibit it? God gave the whole world to man, but he can’t enter certain countries if he doesn’t have a visa. Anyway, human restrictions are endless.

Then you have the answer to those initial questions: Why did God give us desires and consider certain desires forbidden? Why did God put that tree in the middle of the garden?

Precisely to save us from what we have today.

Currently, we have a world in which you do everything you want, in which the popular advice is “follow your heart” and “chase your dreams”, and the result of this is slavery.

There are numerous restrictions that you impose on yourself, not by God.

I need the tree in the middle of the garden so that I can respect that there is a God above me and that if I have sense, I must obey Him. Because if you don’t do that, the alternative will be disastrous.

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