teknomom

“keep”/shamar means to guard!
Does that not imply that there was an enemy?
Adam was the watchman.

Somewhere I read an interesting theory about that, might have been in God’s Word to Women. It proposed that Adam was to guard against the Serpent, which of course has serious implications concerning the Fall.

If Adam had been charged with keeping the serpent out of the garden, then he not only shirked his responsibility but, possibly, didn’t see any reason to keep him out. Had he done his job, Eve would not have been tempted at all. And in this light, think of the great failure on Adam’s part to stand and watch as this serpent he was to keep out led Eve into sin.