[stuartcr]

First of all, how do you know Adam had free-will at birth? He was supposedly the first human. Maybe God was experimenting with the concept of free-will, sort of a trial and error. Adam does what he was told not to do, uses free-will and eats the info fruit. God gets upset, sees how uniquely horrible this free-will stuff is, and punishes the rest of mankind for Adam's mistake. Now we have free-will and all it's attached misery. Perhaps animals are the lucky ones, they don't appear to have free-will, or sin.

[Weatherman123]

God gets upset, sees how uniquely horrible this free-will stuff is, and punishes the rest of mankind for Adam's mistake.

Personally, I'm glad we have free will. I'm glad there are clear choices put before me. I'm glad I have the opportunity, again and again, to chose life over death, to chose good over evil. I consider free will to be a gift from God. How awful to live a life unchallenged, I can't imagine.

And don't forget that before God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden, He lovingly made them their leather garments and clothed them. He replaced their fig leaves with something that would give them greater protection against the cold and harsh world they were about to enter.

Even then, after the sin against God, God was a loving God who protects his chosen. Same with the mark of Cain. Same with Noah and the ark. Same with Aaron and the golden calf. Same with the Israelites as they ignored Torah (law) again and again.

God's acknowledgement and anger against "man's" sins is always followed by God's forgiveness and providence.

This thought just came to me, and I'm not trying to be sarcastic, let me make that clear. Perhaps God got tired of continually forgiving us and renewing his covenant with us and this is why He sent his only Son to die on the cross for our sins.

Any thoughts on that one?