Rational defense of Christianity?

[dyresand]

Without the knoweledge of sin then there is no rejection of God's word/will.

Then why put the tree in the garden? Would their lives have been negatively impacted if they did not have knowledge of evil? It seems as if the tree only affected one particular choice: whether or not to serve god. Why give them that choice at all, if the only possible outcomes were (1)to maintain the status quo or (2)to completely wreck things and usher in a period of thousands of years of human misery and death?

Missing part in the bible it was edited out god had a wife who put it there.
But you know how bronze age people are.