How Can Any Other Escape?

Adam, the touch of God was still so fresh,
The feel of His hands when you stood upright;
Where the rib was taken, sore ached your chest,
Lungs stinging yet as life His breath excite.
Of all men, you should have been the most fit,
Satan's tempting falsehood quick to reject.
How could you yield, dooming all to the pit,
When daily walks with God you could expect?
So soon your love of evil cut the tie;
Compelled God your descendants condemn;
Forced them to labor in sweat; and then die;
Enlarged the scope of hell; and heaven trim!
Foolish Adam! If you so soon forgot,
How can any other escape the plot?

God created the first man and the first woman. Whether they were made as a result of His command or by His own hands from the dust of the ground really doesn't matter.

"the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." (Genesis 2:7)

After man was made and before the woman was made, God gave the man some commands; he was to do certain things, and he was not to do one thing.

"And the Lord God commanded the man, 'You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.'" (Genesis 2:16-17)

Surely Adam and Eve must have talked about God's command that the fruit of one tree was not to be eaten. Anyhow, Satan tempted Eve first, and she yielded to temptation; then she encouraged Adam, who was beside her all the time, and he followed suit. Before they sinned, they had no knowledge of good and evil, and had lived nude; as soon as they ate the forbidden fruit, they saw that they were naked.

"Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden." (Genesis 3:8)

God hates sin (disobedience). When Adam and Eve disobeyed, He cast them out of the garden, and they had to work for their food the rest of their lives. From that terrible moment on, there would be no walking and talking with God by any human being. All men would die physically and spiritually. Jesus had to come to earth to live and be crucified to pay for the sins of men. To regain fellowship with God, men have to accept Jesus as their Lord and love others as He loved us.