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You Can't Eat From Any Tree in the Garden
In genesis three, the enemy flips that scrip from broad and generous to narrow and restrictive. Recastet ignatius of loyola defines sin this way: Sin is an unwillingness to trust that what god wants for me is only deepest happiness. So where there was one love and love only, the serpent introduces possibility of fear. And when he responds, she takes the bait. She remembers god's voice in her life, not as generous, but as narrow like the serpent. After warping eve's view of god, creating some distance n her and the father of love, the serpent then burries the lie.