Is it a sin to skip your morning devotions? That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day.

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you can always email us your question at Questions at Core Christianity.com. Well, first up today,

let's go to Shantay, who's calling in from Missouri. Shantay, what's your question for, Pastor Adriel?

Sanchez, Pastor A. Sanchez, my question is, I want to go into the garden.

And I'm talking about the trees.

When God explained that he had made the grass, he had made the herbs, and then he planted

trees in the garden.

But then he gave a distinct description of the tree of life, the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Why was those

trees gave great details as it was given of what they were? Shantay, so are you, are you asking

what's distinct about those trees in relation to all the other trees that were in the

garden? Exactly. Exactly.

Well, they're used by God specifically.

One, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is this testing tree, if you will.

God is using this tree to render a judgment, if you will.

And that sort of being able to distinguish between good and evil, this is something

that you see throughout the Bible that the people of God are called to do.

The tree becomes a place of testing for Adam and Eve.

Now, we don't know what the tree looked like per se.

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