Just as the Ten Commandments were given to humanity to warn about what will cause harm in people’s lives, so too was Elohim’s warning to Adam and Eve to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which after twenty years or so Satan was able to undermine by deception, convincing them that surely they would not die if partaken. Having seen the goodness of Elohim, the first couple apparently did doubt that Elohim would cause death to enter their world, but He did, not suddenly, rather in a way that caused hardship in their lives until they did physically die, having to suffer the pain of labor in childbirth and having to work the fields against the thorns and thistles.
