What Would It Be Like If Adam and Eve Hadn Eaten the Forbidden Fruit?
“Bees wouldn’t sting, bears wouldn’t bite, and bad things wouldn’t happen,” says Amanda, age 6. “You could keep lions and tigers for pets,” adds Marci, 9. “The world would be wonderful.” Amanda and Marci may have been reading the prophet Isaiah, who wrote of a time when the lion will lie down with a calf and eat straw like an ox. Marci says if we were in the Garden of Eden, “mosquitoes wouldn’t bite.” And it’s a good thing, because Jennifer, 11, says, “We would probably be running around naked without thinking it’s wrong.” Hillary, 6, adds that Adam and Eve “wouldn’t have had to hide from God” if they hadn’t eaten the forbidden fruit. Today, fig leaves take many forms: a better job, a bigger house, a more exotic vacation or a different spouse. We try to hide, but God always finds us. Religious fig leaves are very itchy because they attempt to cover our guilt and shame with a system of works that can never provide true righteousness. If Adam and Eve hadn’t committed that first sin, says
