What difference do you suppose it would have made if Adam had not taken the bait that Satan offered Eve?

Question

Genesis 3
1Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
8And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
9And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
10And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

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12And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
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Answer 1

Because Eve was the less experienced one, if Adam had rebuked her and refused to take part she may have been forgiven and, we might not be dying totoday because we would not have inherited sin.

Answer 2

These are the punishments God bestowed on Satan, Eve, and Adam in that order.
Genesis 3:
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring [a] and hers;
he will crush [b] your head,
and you will strike his heel."

16 To the woman he said,
"I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you."

17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,'
"Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat of it
all the days of your life.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return."

So had she not eaten of the fruit, I believe snakes would not crawl and man would not fear them. I believe that childbirth would be a lot less painful and I believe that man would not have to break his back to work for food or now days, for the money to buy that food. We would live innocent as children do.

Answer 3

I think if Adam had said to God, "God, this woman has sinned against you and she wanted me to, but I didn't." God would have destroyed Eve and Satan and created another woman for Adam and we would all be a lot better off, because we would all be living forever in paradise on earth. That's what God originally purposed, and that's what he intends to return the earth to.

Answer 4

The truth is that if any of us were in Adam's place, we would have probably made the same decision to disobey. If Adam had not done it, then one of his off spring would have at some time or another. So we have to just take God's back up plan - redemption through faith in Jesus Christ.

Answer 5

Sin would not have entered the world.

Sin would have stopped in the Garden, and Satan would have possibly been dealt with then.

Answer 6

I tell you what irks me about this passage. g*d should have jerked her *ss out of the garden right then and made a new helper for adam.

Answer 7

He would've sinned anyway because he would've killed her from anger that she sinned against God and now he would be held responsible as her husband. jk

'What if's' are not the best questions.

Answer 8

none we still be here now and like we are GOD knew us you tell your kid don't do that and the first thing they do is what you told them not to so GOD dad knew what would happen luv dad

Answer 9

No difference. Sin is sin.

Answer 10

Death of the women.