Adam and Ebe

Question: What would happen to Adam and Eve had they not succumbed to the temptation?

There's a lot of probabilities  but if Adam and Eve were a bit stronger and were able resist the serpent's invitation to taste the fruit ... they would have never been separated from GOD! Because even in this day and age the thing that separates us from GOD in the first place ... is sin.

In the Bible, when God says “If you eat the fruit you will surely die. " But when Eve ate the fruit.. she didn't die instantly. The death mentioned was just maybe a figure of speech and not literalling dying per se. When God said DIE maybe He meant their relationship with God died. ... (meaning some sort of separation from God). It is dying SPIRITUALLY and not PHYSICALLY.

It is obvious that the controversial forbidden fruit here is just a test for Adam and Eve's loyalty with God.  The fruit is immaterial but rather the act of obeying or disobeying the words of God ... which is the central theme here.

By the way was the forbidden fruit in the Bible a metaphor for sex? And in the same token, when Eve tempted Adam to eat the fruit ... was it another metaphor for invitation for sex?

The reason why God allowed the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was because He has given men the gift of freewill. God gave man the freedom to choose between good and evil. It is all up to him.

So if Eve never ate the fruit, we would all still be connected and was never separated from God. Had they choose to make a "snake inasal" just like  what is seen in the image above ... it would have been a better option.

Which means, there will be no hatred, no tears and no pain. Just love peace and harmony.

Just my daily rambling with all the what's and why's of the world.