If Adam and Eve hadn't sinned would their children have been tempted also?

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I would like to think that Satan would have been cast out forever leaving us in peace however even without Satan someone sooner or later would have ruined it for all of us, maybe Cain?
 
As you know the story of Adam and Eve is largely thought of by theologians as an allegory, a story to tell a story or convey a message of and from God. I would tend to think "The Children of Adam and Eve’ would be quite capable of sin-defiance and disobedience on there own because of free will.
 
There was no evil among human if the tree was not there or Satan was not allowed to intervene. I am wondering why God allowed these?
 
I don’t know, but I like the way C.S. Lewis tells the story in Perelandra. Spoilers below for those who haven’t read it:

After the “Adam and Eve” on Venus defeat the evil tempter, he is destroyed and they are crowned king and queen as the planet is given to them for their inheritance. There is so much rejoicing with the angels and all the creatures of that world. I believe the impression is given that they will stay eternally innocent and in communion with God.

God grants the original man and woman on Venus knowledge of good and evil, but they stay pure and innocent…it’s the knowledge of evil without the material experience of it. It is how Earth was meant to be. If Adam and Eve had not eaten the forbidden fruit, God would have granted them the knowledge anyway and let them eat of the Tree of Life. They also would have had the knowledge without the experience of sin.
 
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I am wondering why God allowed these?
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If the narrative is viewed as literal history I find it difficult to come up with an answer to that question. But as allegory I read a very interesting piece by Richard Rohr this morning regarding this topic. He is talking about overall respect in leading up to the passages in Genesis; “You cannot know things if you don’t first of all grant them a foundational respect, if you don’t love them before you grab them with your mind. This is surely what Genesis warns us against from the beginning, in archetypal Eden. ‘You’ll eat voraciously from that forbidden tree of knowledge before you know how to respect and honor what you are eating,’ which creates very entitled and proud people. All of life becomes a commodity for our consumption.”

So there is a lesson to be learned here, not simply an event to ponder with bewilderment, which I did for many years.
 
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