Paradise in the Story of Adam is earthly, defining the setting of Adam’s story as terrestrial rather than transcendent, and this makes the story tied to a human experience that is capable of learning and development. Within this framework, the tree is a symbol of the test of possession explains the nature of the prohibition within that paradise, and repentance corrects human freedom shows that the effect of the transgression falls within human history itself. This conception is also consistent with the story of Adam’s two sons builds the human conscience and the Qur’an presents a cumulative development of the human being, considering the Qur’anic stories as stages in the formation of the human being.