A Strange Prohibition and a Surprising Experiment

A Strange Prohibition and a Surprising Experiment
Genesis 2: 15-20

One of our friends has been looking and hoping for years to find the girl of his dreams, but he is getting older, and it looks less and less likely that this will ever happen. So he recently acquired a dog. At least there is now someone in the house to welcome him with enthusiasm when he gets home from work. You can talk to a dog, and in a sense it answers back, and while you have to pay for the shots at the vet, in some ways a dog is a lot less trouble than a human being. . . . For humanity as a whole at the beginning, however, God and the first human being realized this would not do...