Garden of Eden

David pointed out that, "Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden are probably a parable. There are lots of parables in the Bible, they are stories from which we learn something but parables didn’t actually happen, did they?"

Could the tree of life, in the Garden of Eden, actually give a human being eternal life? How can a piece of fruit do that?

Let’s think about how Satan is first introduced to us in Genesis: “Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made.”

How can snakes talk?

“Couldn’t God have caused all the trees in the garden of Eden to grow supernaturally fast, like he did with Jonah’s gourd.” Genesis gives us three pieces of information that will help us answer your question.