>>13472605No it did not, Heathen. God's Will was Absolute before Free Will and humans were the first - and please also note, last - of Creation to be granted it. Everything was tickeyboo before He rolled that dice. Boring as all fuck, though, which is probably why He did it.
>>13472606>reflection of the Divine IdentityNow that I agree with, although it does lie at the heart of OPs question. Nothing exists seperate from God, it's anathema. Or saying the opposite of possibility or whatever.
So when humans started sinning pretty much out of the goddamn gate, we were expressing His bad side as much as our own. For example, Pride could not exist outside of God. And so on. It's more that He kept that stuff in check, and created a perfectly functional Universe before unleashing it, quite possibly to explore it. Again, that's The Roman New Religion showing it's Gnostic heritage: Samael steals a handful of Plemoral light, and lies down to become The Universe with it, ostensibly to know his enemy.
The Gnostic soap opera was almost certain based on observations of the Sun and the rainbow, yet at its very core it warns us that The Universe is not a playground for us.
