One of the most interesting questions that we may ponder is this: What would man's life have been like had he never sinned? What would Adam and Eve's lives have been like if they had chosen to eat of the tree of life and had shunned the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
I believe that in such a case, they could never have known the good in any definite way because one cannot know the good specifically unless one also knows the evil by contrast. I believe they could have only known innocence, which is good but only in a natural and unspecific way. Living in a state of innocence would have been blissful since they could never have known anything about evil.
But living in such a state of bliss means that they would have been living like God before Lucifer's rebellion. Before Lucifer's rebellion, God knew absolutely nothing about evil. In His state of blissful innocence, God could only create beautiful, glorious and happy things. Lucifer's rebellion may have injured God's innocence, but it could never break God's power. Genesis 3:15.
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