Why God did not destroy Adam and Eve

Why God did not destroy Adam and Eve after the fall! It is an accusation that is leveled at Christians by non-believers, why didn’t God just destroy Adam and Eve instead of allowing so much suffering and death in the world? The underlying assumption of such a question is that God is a cruel and unjust God, but I aim to show that He is infinitely good and just. If you will, picture in your mind a tree and imagine that tree being cut down. You stand there looking at that tree, you look at it from one end to another, and you ask, what will this tree be? The reality is that the tree is now just a tree. But the tree has within it, the potential to be a chair, a table or a latter, or even a cross. This is what is called potency. The mere fact that the tree is, gives it the potential to be what it can be. Another example; let us say that I am a twenty year old man, not married and a Catholic, in potency, I could be Pope, probably not going to happen, but the potential is there. I fulfill the …