Adam Found Wanting from the First

Adam was not fulfilled by communion with God in Eden.  "And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him" (Genesis 2:18, KJV).

Adam was surely found wanting; can any other reasonable conclusion be drawn from Adam's unfulfillment with God's company?  And so God forms from the soil--the same soil from which Adam was taken--"every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air" (v. 19).  And then the man is roused to the task of naming the creatures--a foretaste of humanity's dominion over Creation.

It was not good that the man was alone; it was not good that the man was unfulfilled in God's company; it was not good that animals and birds had to be created in an attempt to satisfy the man; it was not good that even this was not enough for the man.  The cycle of humanity's failure, joined to negative consequences of such failure, was established well before the supposed Fall.