Did Adam and Eve have to work the garden of Eden?
God created the Earth and man and “He saw that it was good.” (repeated all throughout Gen. 1) Reading later into Chapter 2 verse 15 it says that God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden to WORK it and take care of it. The Hebrew is divided into two words. עבד (transliterated: ‘abad) meaning “to serve; to labour; to till (as in land)” The second word, שמר (transliterated: shamar) meaning “to keep; to preserve; to have charge over” In the light of all of this, God seeing creation and calling it good and seeing man and calling it good and placing a good man/creation in the good garden/creation for the purpose of work would obviously lead to the idea that work was created GOOD. Fast forward to chapter 3 and the Fall of Man. Afterward, God went through the “curses” cursing the serpent, the woman in childbirth, and the ground. (Gen. 3:17-19; 23) The work that God created “good” before the fall would now become hard and toilsome producing “sweat from our brow” (Gen. 3:19) And when we are glorifi
