Garden of Eden was a setup...

[ChristIsLord]

Doesn't answer any of my questions, but yes. I am.

God knows everything, so he knows what we are going to do from the instant we are born until we die. So we have no actual free will, we can't choose to do something he hasn't foreseen. Therefore he knows all the mistakes we will make when he makes us, and chooses to make us that way.

The problem with this is that foreknowledge and free will are contradictory, so it's either one or the other. The other problem is that if we make mistakes, God has given us the possibility of making mistakes. He needn't have done that. We could just be happy all the time and choose between lovely options. Like in heaven as often described.

We certainly wouldn't need cars or bank accounts.

It's most certainly not according to "us guys" I assume Christians, its according to God, his Word that we have the law.
The Law is there that we "us guys" know where we in terms of obedience to God.
Unfortunately we all miss the mark by an astounding margin (I dare not say infinite because our lives are finite).
God gave us free will because he didn't want a bunch of preprogramed robots running around, he wanted individuals that would choose to fellowship with Him.

Remember, (according to you guys) God made all the rules in the first place. So if there's something he has to "work around" then we have a problem.

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God the Son, put on flesh, came down to live and suffer along us and did so without committing a single sin so that he may be presented blameless before the cross.

Makes the story even more absurd as has been said about a million times in different threads. God sacrificed himself to himself if he came down in Jesus' form.

Been there, done that.

I don't find it absurd at all, does a parent expect a child to cook for himself or does he/she do the cooking and feeding of that child.....that the child may be nurtured and live and grow.
We cannot go to the cross, but He who is blameless can, not for Himself, but for us.