The three types of trees in Eden

The three types of trees in the garden of Eden denote three different aspects of man's created nature. The different trees which was good for food meant that man was created a sensual being so that he could enjoy the blessings of God through his five senses. The tree of life meant that man was created an eternal being and that he could live for ever enjoying God even though he had a natural body. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil meant that he was created a moral being and that tree was there to help him know it, to warn him that there is something good and there is also something evil - something that goes against the way he was created to live. By not eating it, he was supposed to learn about morality, God's way. Something is right and something is wrong. He could know about evil without entering into evil. By eating of it, he learned about morality his way. He was now helpless to keep himself from evil. He learned about evil by entering into it headlong.