A Future That Would Never Be

In this first part of Genesis, God created the universe and molded it to form how things came to be this way. A lot of things happened here that would change our world as it is right now. All I can think of is how the world would be if Adam and Eve had never tried the forbidden fruit. The world would be a completely different place. For example, snakes weren't meant to slide on the ground. In fact, in that time they were some other creature very different to snakes that probably had legs. Because of the apple incident, however, it was punished and cursed to slide on it's belly for the rest of eternity.

Humans are another big example. If Eve hadn't taken the forbidden fruit, humans would have never been kicked out of Eden. How amazing would that be? We would be able to run around Eden, never having to work on anything else than gardening Eden, free of any worry, free of any sin over good or evil, and completely ignorant of the knowledge the forbidden fruit could give us. Like the Bible said, "the LORD God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:" (Genesis 2: 15-16).
Life between men and women would also be very different. Men and women would understand each other, and there would be no enmity. Women wouldn't suffer while giving birth and men wouldn't be superior to women as they are thought so today. But for her disobedianece, Eve was punished worse than anyone. When God found out it was Eve who had taken the forbidden fruit, he declared:
 "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." (Genesis 3:15-16).
Adam and all men that would come after were punished also. The final condemn of God was:
"And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." (Genesis 3:17-19).
In other words, the world would have been a wonderful place if Adam and Eve wouldn't have screwed up everything. The whole reality we live in today wouldn’t exist if Adam and Eve would have stayed in the garden, obedient to God. Still, I think humans were never meant to live that kind of life. God put that tree there for a reason, so even if Adam or Eve never ate of the fruit, one of their descendants would take it someday. Curiosity is a human impulse that can become too great to overcome. It’s just human nature, and God created us with it, so he never meant for us to stay there for long.