[metmom]

I have no idea how it would have turned out. We aren’t told that.

However, God told them not to eat or they’d die.

So Adam, who was with her, watched her eat. My guess was that when he saw nothing happened to her, he chose to eat too.

It was after HE ate that the eyes of both of them were opened and they saw they were naked.

[Seven_0]

So Adam, who was with her, watched her eat. My guess was that when he saw nothing happened to her, he chose to eat too.

Wouldn't this suggest that Adam didn't believe God yet scripture says that Adam was not deceived.

[jimfr]

You are assuming Adam watched her. The Bible does not say he did.

[wita]

I have no idea how it would have turned out. We aren’t told that.

The Bible tells us the story. If things would have turned out differently than the history we have, surely that would have been a part of history as well. God does not deceive.

“However, God told them not to eat or they’d die.”

We really don’t know how much they understood what dying meant as they had not had the experience yet.

“It was after HE ate that the eyes of both of them were opened and they saw they were naked.”

Far more important than their nakedness, IMHO, was the Lord’s statement in Genesis 3:22. “Behold the man is become as one of us...

I have a bit of trouble with language in verses 23 and 24. In 23 it says the Lord God sent him forth from the garden... in contrast to 24 that is the more harsh comment “So he drove out the man.