Life consists of matter drawn from the soil mixed with the breath of Yah, for life to flourish both elements of life need nourishment, to nourish the body we eat food, if we fail to eat food we starve and cease to function. In the Garden of Eden food was plentiful and hung from the trees, after the fall it was grown by the sweat of labour.
The Breath of Yah also had to be nourished and in the Garden it was nourished by the constant presence of Yah and the ability to use His Knowledge of Good and Bad (Torah) to sustain and feed Adam’s (and the Woman’s) spiritual hunger.
This was life as Yah intended, there was no ‘old age’ there was just eternal life.
Nourished by Torah, the Words of Creation, the spiritual life flourished and abounded.
Torah was the healing and beneficial message of spiritual life.
Then Adam chose to seek his own torah, his own knowledge of good and evil. He became a god in his own rite and became (destructive) competition to Yah; he could no longer use Yah’s knowledge to sustain and husband Eden so Yah had to remove him.
So Adam had to live in his own domain outside of Eden and without the healing and beneficial message of Torah; all the time he chose his own way the spiritual sustenance of the power of Torah was denied him.
The woman confessed her ‘sin’ she had allowed the serpent to deceive her. She was forgiven but she still had to bear the consequences of her action. Death had been let loose and the Woman had to become Chavah, the life giver.
In Adam’s domain the Serpent became a major influence, and when Adam used his own knowledge there was the serpent manipulating his decision making. In Yah’s Creation was TRUTH, but in the areas influenced by the serpent there was chaos and lies. Adam (and subsequently Cain) had to deal with those lies, to believe and act on them or to discard them. Torah provided a foundation and a bastion against which lies could be detected. But Adam and Cain rejected Torah and turned each one to his own way, and whichever way they turned, there too was the serpent deceiving and killing. Without Torah they had no defence.