If Adam had not transgressed

A couple of points put forth on a forum:
1. Why did God show Adam the tree in the first place, and subsequently forbid him from approaching it?
Adam, before the incident was innocent like a child. If you tell a child to not go to a specific toy, what do you think the child will do? Automatically, curiosity will impel the child to touch it. Such is our nature.
Doesn't it mean that God inadvertently led Adam to sin?

2. If Adam had not eaten the apple from the tree, how else would you have existed? How else would this earth have come to be?

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I answered with:




If Adam had not transgressed, he would not have fallen; but he would have remained in the garden of Eden. And all things which were created, must have remained in the same state which they were, after they were created; and they must have remained for ever, and had no end.
And they would have had no children; wherefore, they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.
But behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things. Adam fell, that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy. And the Messiah cometh in the fullness of time, that he may redeem the children of men from the fall.
And because that they are redeemed from the fall, they have become free for ever, knowing good from evil;
To act for themselves, and not to be acted upon, save it be by the punishment of the Lord, at the great and last day, according to the commandments which God hath given.
Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man.
And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great mediation of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil:

For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things.
If not so, righteousness could not be brought to pass; neither wickedness; neither holiness nor misery; neither good nor bad.
Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one;
Wherefore, if it should be one body, it must needs remain as dead, having no life, neither death nor corruption, nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.
Wherefore, it must needs have been created for a thing of nought;
Wherefore, there would have been no purpose in the end of its creation.

Wherefore, this thing must needs destroy the wisdom of God, and his eternal purposes; and also, the power, and the mercy, and the justice of God.
And if ye shall say there is no law, ye shall also say there is no sin.
And if ye shall say there is no sin, ye shall also say there is no righteousness.
And if there be no righteousness, there be no happiness.
And if there be no righteousness nor happiness, there be no punishment nor misery.
And if these things are not, there is no God.
And if there is no God, we are not, neither the earth, for there could have been no creation of things, neither to act nor to be acted upon; wherefore, all things must have vanished away.

From the book everyone loves to hate!