Was the Biblical Adam Cognitive?

Suppose we take the Biblical account of creation as given. Given Eve chose to disobey God, and given Adam chose comfort of Eve’s body and companionship over eternal life, clearly Adam and Eve were cognitive. Given evidence for cognition arises in context of a choice between obedience and disobedience, however, the sin context does not reveal the extent to which Adam and Eve possessed cognition in context of a sinless world.

In a sinless world within which Adam and Eve would continue to have face to face fellowship with the physical manifestation of God — Jesus Christ, who then as yet was not revealed to mankind as Savior— would Adam and Eve possess capacity for exercising choices? Could Adam and Eve choose differently from God?

Is there any evidence that in absence of sin, in presence of a sinless world, Adam, Eve, and their descendants — you and I — would maintain cognition, have capacity for choices?

One of the reasons people eschew a sinless world is the foreboding that a sinless world would be gray, boring, monotonous — a world lacking in fun, humor, laughter. This perhaps was the hidden reason Eve was attracted to the forbidden fruit — desire for more of fun in context of coexistence with her husband, Adam.