When we read the creation narrative of Genesis 1 and 2, we hear over and over again the declaration, "and it was good." This means that everything God made was according to His divine design and fulfilled His divine purpose. God's greatest provision for man was the provision of Himself. God is what man needed most, as man's ultimate source of life and fulfillment. This is why God told man that to disobey his command would result in death. The man and woman did not physically die when they disobeyed God's command. However, they became cut off from their source of life, God Himself, which resulted in spiritual death. Losing the beauty and bounty of the Garden was the least of their loss. They lost the fellowship with the God who had made it, and them.