So Adam and Eve had a 50/50 chance of not eating of the forbidden fruit and surely dying.
What did the Lord do to try and improve those odds?
I just have a hard time wrapping my brain around this simple fact that they had a 50/50 chance of living forever or surely perishing and knowing evil.
Who's to say if not Adam and Eve then one of their kids eating of the fruit? So let's consider this hypothetical and dig deeper; say Cain, since he seems more throw-able under the bus, had eaten fruit of the forbidden tree, would all of Cain and his line died, eventually, while Abel and all his descendants went on living eternally; barring their eating of the wrong fruit?
What did the Lord do to try and improve those odds?
I just have a hard time wrapping my brain around this simple fact that they had a 50/50 chance of living forever or surely perishing and knowing evil.
Who's to say if not Adam and Eve then one of their kids eating of the fruit? So let's consider this hypothetical and dig deeper; say Cain, since he seems more throw-able under the bus, had eaten fruit of the forbidden tree, would all of Cain and his line died, eventually, while Abel and all his descendants went on living eternally; barring their eating of the wrong fruit?