Don’t know why, but whenever I’ve heard the fate of Adam and Eve discussed, the general assumptive agreement is that the two are saved. They will be available in heaven to answer our questions. And I can see why it’s reasonable to think that.

After all, they would never have forgotten the memories of their idyllic life with God before the fall. And after experiencing the horrific consequences that followed their rebellion against God, there must have been regret.

Surely they would have yearned for the good old days of direct communion with God. They would have expressed their sorrow to Him, asked for His forgiveness, and returned to His way of living.

We like to think so, and, indeed, we hope so. If they did, then yes, they are saved. But the fact of the matter is that we really don’t know. The Bible doesn’t tell us.

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One of the consequences of Eve’s sinning was the following. God told her “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children.” Genesis 3: 16.

I’m wondering. If sin had never entered our world, would childbirth been only a very slight hurt or entirely painless? Will that be the case upon the new earth?

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In the Garden of Eden, everything was new to our first parents. Nature was not to Adam and Eve what it is to us today. Whatever occurred during that time was natural to them. That’s why they didn’t find it strange that a serpent was talking to them.

Though the animals may even then have been incapable of speaking on their own, spiritual beings such as God, Satan, angels, and demons, could certainly speak through them (think Balaam’s donkey). It’s possible that many other creatures, used by God and Satan, talked to Adam and Eve as well.