Genesis 2:8-9 is topical, not chronological. God planted a garden on the third day, and man was created on the sixth day. Since the garden was made for the man, then that's how it's described.
The LORD God planted a garden
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Here's a Christian-bait question: *IF Adam had fruit to eat in the garden of Eden, *AND the other animals were all herbivores, *THEN why do snakes have venomous fangs? We'll show you how to handle it.
June 25th
"in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." Adam didn't drop dead the moment that he ate the fruit, a possible meaning of the text. He lived for 900+ years. Is this a contradiction?
March 11th
Evolution on the scale needed in the atheist narrative (SciPop) requires death, but there was no death before sin. It's not possible for evolution to be the origin of humanity.