Just think of it. God asked only one thing--and he could have made any requirement. Such as, "Don't pick daisies. Or don't whistle. Or stay out of the mud. But he said, "Don't eat from the tree in the middle of the garden." That should have been simple enough. But man--who had free will--did the one thing God said not to do. He did not allow God to be God. Adam did not obey.
We do the same thing. Take any one of God's commandments, and the nature of the human is to break it. We don't want anyone to tell us what to do. We want to be our own God. We want to be in charge of our own life--until something goes wrong that we can't fix. Then we cry out to God to come to our rescue.
People don't actually want to surrender their will to God's will. They just use Him as an insurance policy. Cash it in when you need it. Problem is, it doesn't work that way. God knows those who trust him with their lives. He knows who his children are. He also knows who has totally surrendered to His will, because He lives within them. You become His when you surrender to his will. His Holy Spirit is what saves you. And guides you.
You can't live a Christian life without God's Spirit. It's impossible. If all that was required was to keep a bunch of rules, you would soon realize that you couldn't do it. You couldn't save yourself.
When Adam was cast out of the garden, he and Eve had children. But the Holy Spirit can't be inherited, so Cain, Able, and Seth were all born empty. As well as every human being after that. The apostle Paul says that we are born dead. The place in the human body that holds the breath of God was never again filled until Christ. Jesus was Spirit first, then wrapped in human flesh. He alone satisfied what God had intended. He obeyed.
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