Was wisdom in the Garden before the fall?

During our Christmas game of phase 10 with my family, my sister an I began a discussion on Adam and Eve. This was more than just your everyday discussion on the first couple but that of wisdom in the garden. She exclaimed that she was just in a bible study on the fall and found that Adam and Eve did not have wisdom prior to the fall. Since we didn't fully enter into the discussion I was able to get just how she come up with that understanding. I on the other hand totally and utterly disagree that they didn't have wisdom, but also had knowledge and understanding to add. Adam and Eve had cognitive abilities which are knowledge wisdom and understanding.


When God created the earth and all things in it he created those things fully grown , once he was completed. Adam and Eve would not have been toddlers nor would they have been tweens but adults or at the least adolescence. Adam and Eve would be much different than the animals and the trees, which is that they were giving the breath of life and also that they were made in the image of God in his likeness, male and female. They were in command from God to rule over the fish, birds and lives stock and creatures that move along the ground over all the earth. This would mean that they would have to have understanding of what animals where which knowledge of there habitat and wisdom to be able to utilize there ability to rule over the land.

Genisis 1 26-27

26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, ^[b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

Secondly the exchange between the crafty serpent and the woman was an even better example of knowledge and wisdom. The serpent being crafty tried to change the commandment of God by changing what God really said which was not to eat from the tree of knowledge, but Satan said any tree in the garden. Eve using wisdom and knowledge said " we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden" but not from the tree in the middle of the garden. This was and example of knowledge and wisdom of the command. Wisdom not to be taken by crafty words, but Eve was duped into believing she could be more like God if they ate of the tree's fruit. Which is what she really lacked wisdom of evil, but all the while Adam was hanging by.

Genisis 3:1-3

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"

2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' "

So Adam and Eve did have wisdom prior to the fall, but it could also be said that wisdom and knowledge of good and evil is what they lacked and is how they were duped into finding out