Development of Sin by R. C. Sproul 

"Ye shall be as gods."  This was the original temptation, the archetypal seduction aimed at our first parents by the serpent.  Created as vice-regents with dominion over the earth, Adam and Eve wanted more.  They reached for autonomy, stretching greedy arms toward the throne of God, only to fall headlong into the abyss of evil.

Expulsion from Eden was their fate.  They could not go back,  Paradise was lost.  An angel with a flaming sword stood guard at the gateway to the Garden.  This is the first reference in Scripture to a weapon of any sort.  Before God gave the "power of the sword" to men, He gave it to the angel to patrol and guard the border west of Nod.

With the Fall came a rapid expansion of sin. One son of Adam and Eve murdered his brother, introducing fratricide to human history.  This violence was followed by Lamech, who celebrated warfare in his famous "sword-song" (Genesis 4: 23-24).  Man used his nascent technology to turn the tools of farming into implements of war.  The plowshare became a sword, and the call to subdue the earth was distorted into a conspiracy to conquer one's brother.  The means of production became the means of destruction, and human technology and scientific discovery were used not to honor God but to assault Him, by attacking His creation and His image-bearers.

Then God said "No" to the expansion of corruption and brought the Flood, a storm of judgment upon the earth, a deluge to clean the planet.

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Genesis 3:4-5:  And the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.  For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

Geneis 3:22-24:  Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil.  And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever" - therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.  So He drove out the man; and He placed the cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.