What if Adam & Eve had obeyed God?

Answer 1

Then there wouldn't be any reason to complete the book. "And they lived happily ever after. The End." That wouldn't have been very good for sales.

Answer 2

First of all........... Eve tempted Adam with the apple which I believe is merely a symbol for sex. Because they disobeyed God, they chose free will, over the promise of pain free and abundant life. If Adam and Eve had obeyed God, we would not have free will - God would take care of everything for us, with no pain and suffering. He doesn't cause suffering - free will gives us choices and most of the time our choices are wrong.

Answer 3

We would all be perfect people, living in a world where there is no wars, sickness or death, no crime or violence at all. The earth would not be suffering from the things man has done to it. We would be ruled by our maker, God, who knows what is best for us. We would lack nothing. It would be a nice world. That was God's original purpose for the earth, it's still his purpose, and in his own time he will make things right.

Answer 4

If Adam & Eve had not disobeyed Jehovah, they would be living somewhere on the Earth today in a Garden of Eden, a Paradise.

There are those who reason that, because of the very nature of the physical universe, the time must come when the sun will no longer shine and the earth will no longer sustain life. But are they correct? What does the Creator say, the One who brought into existence energy and matter, the One who originated the laws on which our existence depends?
Solomon penned these words: “A generation is going, and a generation is coming; but the earth is standing even to time indefinite.” But for how long? According to the rendering of the Holy Scriptures, it will be “to time indefinite.” What does that mean?

As to what the expression means in connection with the earth, we are not left in doubt. At Psalm 104:5 we are told: “He has founded the earth upon its established places; it will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever.
Thus it is regarding the planet Earth on which we live that Jesus Christ taught his followers to pray to God: “Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.”

Jehovah’s will is not for the earth to be inhabited by people who have no regard for its Owner and little love for one another. Long ago he promised: “Evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” (Psalm 37:9, 29) “The inhabited earth to come,” of which the Bible speaks, will be populated by people who fear God and sincerely love their fellowmen. So great will be the changes that take place under God’s heavenly Kingdom that the Bible speaks of “a new earth”, not a different globe, but a new human society that will live amid the paradisaic conditions that mankind’s Creator purposed from the time he began his earthly creation.

The establishing of that “new earth” will, of necessity, be preceded by great destruction, one surpassing anything that mankind has yet experienced. For the good of the earth itself and all who are truly grateful to its Creator, he will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.” (Revelation 11:17, 18)

“Inherit the earth” But can we be sure that this is not just another crafty scheme designed to deprive people of something? Yes, we can. Since the earth is part of Jehovah’s marvelous creation, he as the Maker and Owner has the legal right to bequeath it to whomever he chooses. Through King David, Jehovah made this prophetic promise to His beloved Son, Jesus Christ: “Ask of me, that I may give nations as your inheritance and the ends of the earth as your own possession.” (Psalm 2:8) For this reason, the apostle Paul described Jesus as the one “whom [God] appointed heir of all things.” We can, therefore, have full confidence that when Jesus said that the meek “shall inherit the earth,” he did so in good faith, and he has the proper authority to fulfill his promise.

Peter writes that God brought the Deluge “upon a world of ungodly people,” while preserving Noah and his family; in this way “the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water.” It may again be noted that the reference here is not to the destruction of the planet or of the celestial bodies of the universe, but it is restricted to the human sphere, in this case the unrighteous human society. It was that “world” that Noah condemned by his faithful course.

Answer 5

I see that original act of disobedience as the beginning of our humanness. Without knowledge of good and evil we are no different from the beasts, and live unthinkingly. With the knowledge, we gain some of god's power, but along with that comes the need to think and evaluate, and the capacity for suffering. This forces us out of that idyllic mindless existence and into a world where we must strive to survive and achieve.

Without that, we'd be sitting naked under a tree eating bananas, seeds and all.

Answer 6

Then they would have multiplied and subdued the entire earth, making it into a beautiful paradise and living in peace with the animals like they were supposed to.

Answer 7

We would live in a world with no sin and no terror. we would be free living in a wonderful place and never have to worry about bad things or destruction or death or sin or nothing ... wouldnt that be wonderful???????

Answer 8

The world would be a very different place.

Answer 9

think about it: someone along the line would've sinned. if not adam and eve, one of their children.

Answer 10

Our lives would have been totally different. No working, totally comfortable, plentiful food....but then that's not the way it's supposed to be.