Ask just about anyone, and they will say that Adam and Eve were thrown out of the garden as punishment for their disobedience.
"Then the LORD God said, "See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever" – therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life." (Genesis 3:22-24).
Adam and Eve are not cast out of the garden for disobedience, but rather because God is worried that they will live forever. The account suggests that no atoning sacrifice from Jesus is necessary for us to have eternal life; instead, just a bite from the tree of life. Finally, it does make one wonder where the garden is today. If God could have just gotten rid of it, why bother to set up the cherubim and a flaming sword at the entrance?
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