"If nothing short of perfection will permit us to stand before God, then none of us will, because none of us is perfect."

How The Story Might Have Ended

So the woman saw that the tree was good to eat and a
delight to the eye, and the serpent said to her, "Eat of
it, for when you eat of it, you will be as wise as God."
But the woman said, "No, God has commanded us not
to eat of it, and i will not disobey God."
  And God called to the man and the woman and
said to them, "Because you have hearkened to My word
and not disobeyed My command, I shall reward you
greatly." To the man, He said, "You will never have to
work again. Spend all your days in idle contentment,
with food growing all around you." To the woman, He
said, "You will bear children without pain and you will
raise them without pain. They will need nothing from
you. Children will not cry when their parents die, and
parents will not cry when their children die." To both
of them, He said, "For the rest of your lives, you will have full bellies
and contented smiles. You will never cry and you will never laugh.
You will never long for something you don't have, and you will
never receive something you always wanted." And the man and the
woman grew old together in the garden, eating daily from the
Tree of Life and having many children. And the grass grew high
around the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil until it
disappeared from view, for there was no one to tend it.