Why was Adam and Eve sent from the garden of Eden?

Well, the most common answer I get when asking this question is:  Because of their sin by eating of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil.

WRONG ANSWER

See, if this was your answer too, you have been brainwashed to believe that even since the beginning of the Bible, God is a God that points a finger at us and that's that.  But I have come to know Him as a God of Protection.  A God that cares so much for us that He will do whatever is needed to Protect us from even worse evil.

So what is the correct answer?  This is the scripture I can give as an answer, the ONLY answer to the question:

Ok so - the serpent got his share of what was due, Adam would work hard to earn a living and Eve would bear children etc etc etc.  The next verse after God gave what was due is:

Genesis 3:21 - Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

Now people - if you are remotely like I am, you WILL NOT make clothes to someone you are still a bit upset with?

And then we read the nice part of the story -

Genesis 3:22 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
 ²³Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
 ²⁴So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Aha - did you get that?  Did you get it?  God sent man out from the garden of Eden BECAUSE He wanted to PROTECT them from dying for ever in a sin-state through eating of the tree of EVERLASTING life!!!

Now this changes the picture because Jesus then came and became the Tree of Life for us.

How does this change my view of God - Well - when I first read this few verses I asked God what He wanted me to see.  He said:  My child - if you put a hedge around your pool - you do it because you want to protect your children from swimming and drowning - not because they may not swim! 

Thus - the point I want to make is that God is a God of protection and whatever He does - even though it does not make sense - He does it to protect us.