Gen. 2:15-3:24

"Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, 'Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of 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.'" 2:15-17
Adam had only one thing he could not do . . . everything else was fair game. God gave Adam responsibility for the the garden and told him not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Rather than physically preventing him from eating, God gave Adam a choice and, thus, the possibility of choosing wrongly.

God then creates Eve and the two of them become one and fellowship with God in the Garden. How peaceful that must have been. Even on our best day, it can't compare to what it must have been like to have fellowship with God in the Garden. But it doesn't last long . . .

"Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, 'Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?'" 3:1
The serpent, Satan, tempted Eve by getting her to doubt God's goodness. He made her forget all that God had given her and, instead, focus on the 1 thing God had forbidden. He tries to make Eve think that sin is good, pleasant, and desirable. A knowledge of both good and evil seemed harmless to her. People usually choose wrong things because they have become convinced that those things are good, at least for themselves. Our sins do not always appear ugly to us, and the pleasant sins are the hardest to avoid. So prepare yourself for the attractive temptations that may come your way. We cannot always prevent temptation, but there is always away of escape. Use God's Word and God's people to help you stand against it.

"No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it." 1st Corinthians 10:13

Taken from the NLT Life Application Study Bible!