(January 3, 2015 at 10:43 am)Tonus Wrote: 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?
It's even more absurd than that. Given the christian believe of god being omniscient it was only the shadow of a choice, since god knew beforehand that placing that tree would result in them eating from it. So, following that logic, god wanted menkind to suffer and only put on a charade to suit his own perverted needs.