(2) Man was created with the power of choice. 

(3) Eve was taken from under the heart of man. 

(4) GOD gave them only one test of obedience ­ not to eat of the tree of good and evil (nowhere in the Scripture does it say it was an apple). 

(5) The serpent was used of Satan to plant doubt in Eve's mind ­ "Yea, hath GOD said?." 

(6) Satan tempted Eve with the same sin he fell by ­ "Eat and ye shall be as gods." 

(7) Eve ate first; then Adam. But Adam, as the head of the Human Race, is declared responsible ­ (Rom. 5:12) "Wherefore, as by one man, sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned."  

(8) When they disobeyed GOD, and sinned, they instantly died spiritually (were separated from GOD). The light went out. 

(9) The Curse that came upon them, also included the gradual dying of the physical body. 

(10) Adam and Eve's fallen nature has been passed on down through the generations; so we all stand as sinners before an angry GOD. 

(11) SIN is the ROOT ­ Sins are the fruit of our fallen nature.