In Catholicism, Augustine of Hippo taught that the "tree" should be understood both symbolically and as a real tree – similarly to Jerusalem being both a real city and a figure of Heavenly Jerusalem. Augustine underlined that the fruits of that tree were not evil by themselves, because everything that God created "was good" (). It was disobedience of Adam and Eve, who had been told by God not to eat of the tree (), that caused disorder in the creation, thus humanity inherited sin and guilt from Adam and Eve's sin.