God’s address to Adam, Eve and Creation in Genesis Chapter 3 is not so much a prescription as it is a diagnosis.  To put it in other words, God is telling humankind what created justice prescribes for those who choose not to obey the ways of its Creator.   As a result of what has been done, God tells Adam, this is what will happen to you:  you will be cursed because you have eaten from the tree of death, the tree of judgment between good and evil.  The tree of judgment assumes the place of God, in that it assumes the ability to know what good is, and what evil is.  

 In God’s address to man and woman in Genesis Chapter 3, God is telling us about the irreversible consequences of such an action, which like all the other actions in the world set off a chain of effects far greater than what can be seen and heard.  It is only because God is omniscient that God can inform us of the future consequences of our actions – or what they will lead to.  Our actions are powerful beyond the abilities of our imagination.  Each time we utter a word, or act in the slightest way, we mark the world in which we live, in ways we cannot even conceive.  I may think that being angry at home only affects me and my immediate family, but it goes beyond the confines of my immediate existence into the universal world in which I live.  And the painful truth is that we have all suffered because of one mans sin (Rom 5:12), and the consequent evil which has resulted.  That spark ignited a fire which could only be extinguished by Christ, and the new creation (Rom 5:19). 

 Knowing all things, God tells man, woman and the serpent what will happen as a result of their sin.  Before the fall, our relationship with nature is unified, as it will be in the new creation.  God has given us the ability to be in harmony with nature and be one with creation, and the ability to communicate with animals.  St Francis of Assisi and St Jerome are people who have experienced this in their life.   Because we were created like this, the serpent is able to try and convince Eve that we could be Wise like God.  Sin fractures this relationship we originally had with nature, and we loose all our communication with it, as is highly evident in our own period of history.  Now it appears as though we are often at war with nature as we are ravaged by larger and more costly natural disasters.  We are often horrified, and rightfully so, when a Tsunami kills hundreds of thousands, turning our blame straight to God, whilst wars and humanly made famine continue to kill millions.  This is only one fractured way of thinking that comes from sin.  Man and Woman hid from God after their actions, as a natural result of their actions, and in a sense we still hide from Him today.  An Immaculate heart weeps far more than we are able too, each time a human dies in this world, regardless of the cause, yet we are able to direct our minds to him only in blame and anger.  We choose an evil world, most of the time not even knowing so, and we rebel against the things that happen to us as a result.  Such is the human condition which sin has shaped.  Despite the earthly opinion we may develop during our short time on this earth, God knows what the problem is, and has set a cure into place.  A cure that will take time yet will be universal in its outcome.