CHRISTIAN & CURIOUS

What if Eve Hadn’t Eaten the Fruit?

Would we still face trials & temptations?

“Angel Gabriel wants to know what you want for breakfast today.” That’s what would have been if Eve hadn’t eaten that fruit.

In the beginning, life was everything we could ever ask for. Adam and Eve’s biggest responsibility was to name the animals. (Although I still wonder how we even knew what name the animals were given.) But Satan disguised as a talking snake, (because apparently, it was normal for a snake to talk) chose to approach Eve and said, “Did God really say you can’t eat from any tree?” And suddenly, she got curious.

Would You Have Done The Same?

But can we blame her?

Our friend says “Don’t date that walking red flag” but suddenly he now looks more attractive.

The Holy Spirit says, “Ignore what that person did” but you don’t believe in karma.

Yet Eve gets a lot of heat for that one mistake of eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But why was the tree even there in the first place? God could have made it invisible to his creations. But no, their attention was drawn to it and Eve fell, putting us into hardships, wondering what could’ve been.

What If Eve Said No?

But what if she had said no? What if she resisted, maybe pulled a Joseph and ran? Would there still be temptation?

Short answer — yes!

Long answer — oh absolutely!

Because you see, Satan fell before Eve did. Revelation 12:7–9 tells us that Lucifer, once an angel, was tempted for power. He tried to pull a Game of Thrones kind of coup, lost, and got cast down with his followers.

Because you see, Jesus who was present even before the creation story, perfect and sinless as He was, could be faced with the devil’s audacity, how much more we? Romans 5:19 reminds us, “For just through the disobedience of one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man, the many would be made righteous.”

What Would’ve Still Been?

So, it wasn’t about if humanity would still fall, it was about when. God didn’t stop Satan from entering the Garden of Eden even though he could. And I believe that was His way of telling us, he didn’t want robots programmed to only obey. He wanted us to choose Him even when other options were available.

Freewill meant at some point, someone was going to choose differently from God’s way. So, Eve can’t be blamed for us not living the soft life, for the pain in childbearing, for the battles that seem too much to handle.

Because these trials that were planned, aren’t just random punishment for existing, but moments that shape us.

After all, would we even appreciate the joy without struggle?

Would we know faith if we never had to trust?

Would we binge-read Job’s story if his life had only been smooth sailing?

But then again, would Eve have been able to delay the inevitable for another 1000 years had she had made other choices? We just may never know.

Hi, reader 👋 Thanks for reading today!

And if you’d love to fuel my work, you could Thanks a latte! 💛☕

Until next time, try not to speak to snakes!