Adam and Eve

God did not tempt them, Satan tempted. God didn’t set them up for failure. He created them with freewill. God didn’t want to create beings that would worship Him mindlessly. He wanted for us to love Him because we choose to love Him. Freewill is His gift to us. If Adam and Eve had no choices in the garden, they would have been mere puppets. God had to set something apart that they could have a choice about. He gave them the choice of being obedient or not. God was merciful, not merciless, in His behavior with Adam and Eve. God walked with them and shared with them. He gave them paradise and asked that they avoid only one thing. If He were merciless, He would have given them a pit to live in rather than a paradise. If He were merciless, He would have surrounded them with forbidden fruits. If He were merciless, He would have given them no choices and would have ruled them from above with an iron fist.

Because there is no good without evil. If Adam and Eve had not been tempted by the presence of the Tree of Knowledge, they would not have been able to make the choice between good and evil. Unfortunately for all of us, they chose to sin. But if evil had not existed, they would not have been able to make the choice to be good. You cannot obey God if he has not told you what to do. If there had never been any evil to tempt them, they would not be true humans with free will to affect the world for good or ill. Instead they would be ignorant pets running around the garden with no self-awareness. God had enough animals already! He wanted us to have free will. But in order to do that he had to give us something to choose between.

God does not tempt mankind, Satan does. God wanted them to obey HIM and actually HE wanted them to eat all the fruit of the trees of the garden except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. HE also offered them the tree of life, which if they had any sense, would have eaten its fruit. Satan was a rebellious angel who was not content with just praising God, he wanted to be boss over all. Adam and Eve listened to Satan's lies, had they not, and eaten of the tree of life first, they would have no desire of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and perhaps it might have disappeared, as they had shown their love for God and had chosen the good.

for the same reason earthly parents make rules for thier own children it was not temptation it was something for our own good and if we had obeyed his word we qould have remained sin free and what a pleaseant life we could haVE HAD !JUST AS LIFE ON EARTH IS SIMPLER WHEN WE OBEY THE RULES

How come a loving Adam, and Eve did not lisen to God about not eatting of the tree. Maybe it had nothing to do with right or wrong but was all planned out for a bigger reason. what ever the reasobns was there was a reason, and i am sure if we could go become in time we could see the reason. If we ask a question to every thing we do not understand we could go throw are whloe lifes with out ever sttoppping asking thing.

God didn't tempt them satin tempt them, God made them with free will so they can trust , love, and believe in him at all times on their own