Did God know that Adam and Eve would sin by eating of the forbidden fruit when He placed them in the Garden of Eden?

Question

Did God know that Adam and Eve would sin by eating of the forbidden fruit when He placed them in the Garden of Eden?

Answer

Yes. God knew that Adam and Eve would sin. Let us look at the Bible to justify this answer that has just been given.

The Bible teaches that God had a plan or purpose to save man even before the foundation of the world. In Ephesians 1:3-4, we read: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,”

Also, in Titus 1:1-2, the Bible tells us that the hope of eternal life was promised before the world began: “Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect and the acknowledgment of the truth which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began,”

Speaking of Christ, the Bible says in I Peter 1:20 that “He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.”

These passages prove very clearly that there was already a plan by God before the foundation of the world to save man. This plan or purpose of God is called the eternal purpose (Ephesians 3:10-11). We know that the world was made before Adam and Eve was made (Genesis 1:1) and since God had a plan of salvation before he created the world, then the logical conclusion from there is that God knew that man would sin even before He made man and placed him in the garden. In addition, God is omniscient (Psalms 139:1-6) and He knows the future (Isaiah 46:10). Since these are parts of the attributes of God, then it means that God knew that Adam and Eve would sin even before they were made and placed in the Garden of Eden.