Access requires responsibility. Remember those three words we’ve talked about before: access, responsibility, and consequence? Adam and Eve had great access to God and the garden. And they had a great responsibility that came along with that access. In Genesis 2:15, Adam and Eve were told to keep the garden: “The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it” (ESV). At first glance, we may read this to mean they were to be gardeners and keepers of the garden of Eden. Interestingly, that same word keep in Hebrew, samar, can also be translated as to “guard” or
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