Sorry but I have to answer this. What you are proposing is silly. What would happen in that case would be a population build up of all species until saturation was reached and then people and animals would have to quit. With no death there would be no frequency, no self regulating system to maintain population levels, no death means just that, no death, ever. All reproduction would have to stop and then all the animals and people would live forever population rates staying the same, never again reproducing. No regulation, but stagnation and I do not believe any creator would make something that stagnated and stayed the same forever.
Think about it, without death, no reproduction is possible, because no regulation would be possible, and that would not apply to plants if people were eating them, new plants would have to grow. Unless people wouldn't have to eat, with no death why bother eating? What's the point, you can't die, so why do you have to eat?
Not stagnation but perfection. Eden and Man were perfect until the Fall.
As for the "silly" part I admitted in post 45 it was a poor example:
I admit that was a poor example. What I'm trying to convey is that if there was stasis before the Fall then most of the rules we see now didn't apply. If there was no death then there was obviously no need to regulate population levels since they would be the same at all times.
I suppose I could have said that God said it was so that's why. But that wouldn't allow much room for discussion.
Think about it, without death, no reproduction is possible, because no regulation would be possible, and that would not apply to plants if people were eating them, new plants would have to grow. Unless people wouldn't have to eat, with no death why bother eating? What's the point, you can't die, so why do you have to eat?
But they did eat. They were allowed to eat everything in the garden except for what God prohibited. They would not necessarily have killed in order to eat. Just like picking an apple doesn't kill the apple tree.