To explain the justice of God in the judgment process, Alma begins with the Garden. This is the appropriate beginning as this is the place where the conditions were created that will require judgment. Alma’s first description reviews the essential event after the eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil; the expulsion from the Garden, and the prohibition of approaching the Tree of Life. In the symbol system of the Garden, these are two mutually exclusive trees, we can have the one, but not the other.