Satan Disproves Christianity

[Esquilax]

Incorrect. It's completely obvious that it's not necessary to exercise power to prevent people from doing something that's never attempted in the first place. Your definition of oppression is based on exercise of power. Therefore, that certain things would have been sinful does not constitute oppression.

Except that dictatorships are built on the whims of the dictators, not the desires of the people under their thumb. That's sort of... the main characteristic of a dictatorship. Since you've got absolutely no basis for saying that any creature in the garden would want to sin or not- and given that pesky human free will that led to the fall anyway- it's reasonable to think that that darn sinful nature would lead to... well, sin.

But that's not germane, anyway; you're the one so hard for dictionary definitions, and I posted one. According to it, god fills the criteria for an oppressor; a ruler with the power to actively oppress if he wanted, applying unjust rules to a group of people with no chance of appeal. Oh, and the punishment for breaking those rules is incredibly cruel and unjust, as evidenced by what happened in the end, so...

And yet you keep going back to desire- an element not even in the definition- to prove your point...

We're not told specifically, but as like begets like, offspring would probably have been the same in this regard - the only sin they could commit would be eating from the tree.

Like begets like, yeah. That's how straight parents have gay children, and no child ever has rebelled against their parents and ended up in vastly different living arrangements and lifestyles. Never happens.