If God told Adam 'you will die if you disobey, what if he had obeyed? Everlasting human life?

Question

genesis 2:. 16 And Jehovah God also laid this command upon the man: “From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. 17 But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.”
psalms 37:29 The righteous themselves will possess the earth,
And they will reside forever upon it.

Answer 1

That's right. It wasn't a trick question. God meant what He said.

Cheers :-)

Answer 2

There's nothing in the Bible that says Adam and Eve would not have relations and have children if they had not sinned. Eden would have expanded to encompass the world. When they got kicked out, having a child was made much more difficult. Being kicked out did not result from them having sex, and the Bible does not say that they weren't already sexually active. In fact, it might explain why he didn't want to take the chance of giving her up if he refused the fruit.

By now we would be out living on the other planets in the universe, as the Earth could only hold just so many people. With 100% use of our mental capabilities, we may have even explored the universe without the use of space ships. Creating worm holes or folding space to step from one planet to another.

Populations would have grown slower, as it would have take over 100 years for a child to mature. The Bible speaks of a child of 100 years playing on the den of a viper, after Armageddon.

You do realize that the tree itself gave them nothing in the way of knowledge, but until that moment, they had not experience what it was like to disobey God. In essence, they were virgins, but after eating from it, this was no longer so. At this point they began thinking about other things, deciding what was or was not wrong, without any specific reason for the decision. Their imaginations went wild.

In the mean time, the argument that Satan presented them, that there were some things that God wasn't telling them, has been used repeatedly by today's Christians to legitimize their doing things that are no promoted or in keeping with God's Word.

Answer 3

Absolutely! Everlasting life in perfection. Why do people believe they would not have sex? How else would fulfill God's command to "Be fruitful and become many?" And to the lady who thought we'd be "messed up": They were perfect so there was no chance of them passing on the illnesses common today that are more likely to occur when one procreates with a relative.

God's will has not changed since he created the earth and Adam & Eve. It will be fulfilled. (Isaiah 55:10-11) The earth will be paradise filled with a righteous human family just as God purposed from the beginning. (Revelation 21:1-5)

Answer 4

Yes Adam was born perfect and had the prospect of living forever as God had intended all humans.

Adam disobeyed and the price of that selfishness was death.

Romans 6:23
For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord.

We through the offspring of Adam are all born into sin thus is why we all die.

Romans 5:12
That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned.

But Jehovah will put it right soon. Jesus perfect sacrifice as made atonement for repentant mankinds sinful state.
And the earth Jehovah will restore back to paradisic conditions as originally intended and forever life for humans in the book of life will be restored.

Matthew 5:5
"Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth."

Proverbs 2:22
As regards the wicked, they will be cut off from the very earth; and as for the treacherous, they will be torn away from it.

People will live forever in paradise and have fulfilling lives.

Psalms 65:21-23
And they will certainly build houses and have occupancy; and they will certainly plant vineyards and eat [their] fruitage. They will not build and someone else have occupancy; they will not plant and someone else do the eating. For like the days of a tree will the days of my people be; and the work of their own hands my chosen ones will use to the full.  They will not toil for nothing, nor will they bring to birth for disturbance; because they are the offspring made up of the blessed ones of Jehovah, and their descendants with them.

Psalms 104:5
He has founded the earth upon its established places;
It will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever.

Death, pain and sickness will never afflict the human race again.

Revelation 21:3,4
With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”

The biblical evidence is huge for the restoration of the earth and back to it's intended paradisic conditions. No more wickedness or wars or disease will ever harm mankind again.
Satan destroyed along with the rest of the wicked.

Imagine the possibilities of living forever. A perfect mind in a perfect body given eternity to develop and gain knowledge and still never get to know all there is.
Maybe I will learn to play the piano like a professional someday lol. Maybe someday the whole universe will be ours to explore. Who knows what amazing possibilities are instore. Beats anything we have in Satan's system and it temporary life.

Answer 5

Man was not capable of maintaining perfection. We needed God it is the whole point. Sin brought forth death but man did gain grace and did come closer to the creation that God intended. Man has advanced throughout creation from Adam's sin came the knowledge of Good and Evil, and later a covenant with man from God and the law and afterward the grace brought to man through the atonement provided and now through faith we can become new creatures. We will one day be literally transformed to God's righteousness.

Answer 6

It is obvious from the word go. The human race would consist only of Adam and Eve. That is an endangered species. It is only because we got kicked out that eve got stuck with a painful birth curse for eternity that we exist. Nice god!!! Bit of a wacko! On the one hand he gives them intelligence then tells them not eat of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil. How is Adam to know what is good or evil or what death is since the concept of death is absent at this stage. What a load of illogical thinking. ArGHHH

Answer 7

If you take genesis literally which I don't, then yes everlasting life but only for Adam and Eve. That would kind of suck for the rest of us. Had they listened then presumably they would still be a couple of idiots running around naked in a garden and the rest of us wouldn't exist.
Or you can view the story as trading immortality without purpose (security) for knowledge and free will (freedom). A kind of parable.

Answer 8

According to Genesis Adam & Eve didn't die the day they snitched the fruit. What does that tell us? God lied and the serpent told the truth.

Answer 9

Exactly! That's what Jehovah purposed for mankind.

Answer 10

We'd be some pretty retarded people with a family tree containing no branches. Considering adam and eve were the only ones in the garden.