What was the point of the Garden of Eden? Were people supposed to live in it forever?

Question

Were Adam and Eve supposed to have children there, etc. I don't know too much about anything other than the reason for having to leave. But what would have been the plan had Adam and Eve obeyed the rules?

Answer 1

Yes, everything in Eden was for their personal use. The ``plan`` was for them to live in the very presence of God.

One disobedient act changed everything. The plan is now to reconcile us back so come judgement day we can live once again in that perfect state.

Answer 2

They probably did have children there because God said that "now" the woman would have pain in childbirth.  The garden was there for the purpose of man being tempted with something forbidden, to see if He would love God more than himself.  He failed.  But God loved him more than Himself, and set about to bring salvation, to reconcile man to Him again.

Answer 3

There'd be no bible cause who needs books when you're in paradise

Answer 4

Genesis 1:28 is your answer.  Yes they were to have children and expand that garden to cover the entire planet.  They were to have caretaker and keeper status over everything that lived on earth.  They would have been alive and healthy to this very day and beyond  if they had broken the one law they had.

Answer 5

God told Eve that she would reproduce after she ate of the fruit, and God told Adam that if he ate of the forbidden fruit that he would die. We know according to the Bible, that death entered the world by sin. (Romans 5:12) It looks as if God only told Eve to reproduce because God knew that she would die.

Answer 6

We would have lived in a Perfect World!!