That is, unless one happens to be Brigham Young, and then God and Adam are the same person. But, I digress. And while you may want to mince words, clearly the Garden of Eden was a paradise, as even your own writers and leaders have alluded to it as.
Men grow strong and powerful as they learn to do things for themselves. The administration at Washington seemed cold and unsympathetic in its answers to our appeal for help when it said, "Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you." Yet that is similar to the at***ude of the Creator, out on the border of time, when he drove man from the Garden of Eden and set him to work in the spirit of self reliance and conquest. The fiat of Eden, "Go forth and multiply and replenish the earth, conquer it, and subdue it and have dominion," as well as the sentence which soon followed it, viz: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread," seemed very severe and harsh. Time and accomplishment have taught men that those were kind words, in the light of the blessings which came from the results of their being chosen by the Deity for the training of the human race in the beginning. And that there might be no retreat back into Eden's Elysian bowers, a Cherubim, with flaming sword, was placed at the Gates of Paradise. So, God apparently intended that we should be outside of Paradise.—Elder Nephi L. Morris
I sometimes think of this world and compare it with what it was before the curse of the Almighty came upon it in the Garden of Eden, where everything was beautiful and everything was peace and tranquility, the lion and the lamb lying down together, and all was harmony. It must have been beautiful indeed. It is referred to in the scripture as "the garden of the Lord." Isaiah tells us: "For the Lord shall comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody." (Isaiah 51:3.) Surely then the Garden of Eden must have been beautiful, a little heaven on earth. It was Paradise.—Elder Rulon S. Wells
Brother George A. Smith has said, very truly, that we are not told in the revelations that we shall not wear good and handsome clothes; no, we are not; we are authorized to make them as beautiful as we please, and also to make the earth as beautiful as the Garden of Eden, to gather around us every variety of the comforts of life, to endeavor to produce joy, peace, life and health, and to strive to make everything around us, if possible, as glorious as the paradise of our first parents.—Brigham Young
It is proposed that the `high way cast up' between the two cities of our God, be decorated with fruit and shade trees between the cities and villages, (which are only eighty furlongs apart,) for the accommodation of `wayfaring men of Israel.' Gabriel has brought from Paradise, some seeds of fruit and grain, which were originally in the Garden of Eden, and will greatly add to the comfort and convenience of man."—Parley P. Pratt
We also know that they would have obeyed God, had children, and carried out the dominion that God gave them in when he instructed them to "Be fruitful and multiply…"
Way to quote Satan as your authority, Chuck.
What is your point? That good and evil are locked in an eternally never ending dualistic battle? That evil and sin are necessary? That Adam and Eve could only obey God by first disobeying him? Just what serpentine bit of wisdom are you going to thrust upon us this time, Chuck, which stems from those first those first notorious words that extended from his lips when he asked "Has God said?"