[aruanan]

Who put the tree in the garden, and why? Answer that question, and you will see the answer as plain as day.

God did, so that man could exercise his free will to obey God because without freedom to submit one's will to another, there can be no exercise of love.

[irishtenor]

So man can only exercise his free will when he is a sinner? God had to put a tree there so that man could sin, in order to have free will?

Adam didn’t love God before the fall? Eve didn’t love Adam before eating from the tree?