(July 16, 2012 at 3:37 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Why couldn't god have tested Adam and Eve's loyalty with a normal tree? The end result is the same, knowing A&E disobyed him, yet it wouldn't have condemned every human from there on as a filthy sinner in need of a blood sacrifice for salvation.
The end result would not have been the same, 1) Lucifer was interested in only in destroying Gods creation, 2) this could have only been done by knowledge of good and evil entering it, 3) Lucifer did not care about Adam and Eve, his only interest in them was to use them to complete his evil work, thus condemning them to spiritual and physical death, 4) without becoming knowledgeable of good and evil Adam and Eve would not have understood what their sin meant. So a normal tree would not have had the same results.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
