>>4844251It feels good, and it gives us spiritual pleasure to worship and praise God. God also has free will. We are all the opposite of his angels which have no other purpose than to serve and worship God. But the servitude and worship of robots is unfulfilling. He wants us to come willfully to him, not begrudgingly, and certainly not automatically. God placed no temptation in the garden of Eden until the serpent Satan made Adam and Eve desire it. -Though then again you could argue that the Lord knew that this test would come to pass but I shall come to that later- Until this outside influence, they had no desire to eat the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. It was only when the serpent used the influence of evil to tempt the innocent childlike Adam and Eve into eating the fruit was there a problem. That is not ineptitude, nor sadism. We would know this is as test or an experiment. What will the beings that He created do? These that he created personally from the dust of the Earth, and of the rib of the Man. Would they act like the other hominid animals he that he had created, or would they act like him?
However you can argue that God is omnipotent and omniscient; He already knew the results. But -and this is just my personal belief- in my mind that's not how I think that God's omniscience works: He sees hundreds of different possibilities each all happening simultaneously. To those without free will he can dictate what will happen and influence what is to come. But beings with free will can influence their own ultimate destinies. God still can shape the future over generations, shape the world itself, speak to people, convince them, but cannot enter ones mind and forcibly change it. It is not through ineptitude or sadism that God lets you make your own choices, nor Adam and Eves. That is one of his Holy and solemn promises to us: our free will. He will not turn us into lobotomized robots.
The only reason that Adam and Eve were so easily corrupted is because they did not know any better; they only knew the words of God, and His simple statement: "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (Genesis 2:16-17). Ironically they didn't know what ramifications this held until they ate the Fruit. Perhaps not even the true concept of them dying.
