Christ Nativity - Christmas When Adam and Eve, persuaded by the devil disguised as a snake, sinned against God's command and tasted the fruit (apple) of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, God rightfully punished them by expelling them from Paradise, where they had lived until then without a care. The original ancestors were left to care for themselves, recognizing stress, fear, illness, sorrow and even death.  Happy and carefree in Paradise, Adam and Eve became ...