One of the more popular ideas running its course through our Christian thought today is the concept of "reversing the curse" of Genesis 3. We talk about it like the primary focus of God's plan for the redemption of humanity is to get things back to the way they were before the Fall. While this is true to a certain extent, we can't take this too far.
First of all, when God created man in the garden, we were created perfect, yet corruptible. As Dr. Chris Bounds says, God's plan is not only to ultimately restore humanity to perfection, but to make them perfect and incorruptible. So the curse is reversed... but it goes beyond Eden.
Even with this in mind, I don't think that God's chief plan for humanity is to make things exactly the way they were in the garden of Eden. But if it is God's plan to eventually create a carbon-copy of Eden, here are a few things which will have to be reversed that we don't usually think about:
a) We're all going to walk around naked (Gen. 2:25)
b) Snakes are going to have legs (Gen. 3:14)
c) Man's job is going to be primarily about naming animals (Gen. 2:19)
... and if it is our job to help God bring this plan to pass, then I guess we might want to start considering joining a nudist colony (just kidding).
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