Our God is a God of Love. Everything He does is to express His Love. In allowing us the opportunity to reject Him, we can then show Him love.
We’re in the Philosophy forum, so let’s put a philosophical spin on this
Have you ever read Plato’s “Timaeus” ? The Demiurge, which is the god of that story, is a god of necessity. If he does something, it is because it was deemed necessary to do so. Contrast with our God, who didn’t have to do anything, but did it anyways, as an act of Love.
Haha, ok…let me refer to my essay…
I actually only cover the Tree of Knowledge obliquely, with respect to it being the thing used to bring sin and death and disease into the world, and then God’s response to it, but here are a couple examples of Love versus Necessity. Perhaps we have found a general principle in God’s motive, which we can extend to other areas.
Firstly, the Demiurge creates from chaos. He saw the chaos, and in order that it should be more perfect, he created the universe. Yahweh, on the other hand, created
ex nihilo, thus suggesting an alternate motive. But…love for a universe? Maybe, but let’s go on.
Why create man? The Demiurge saw that the universe was incomplete. Therefore, he created man. Our source materials on Yahweh, on the other hand, show no such compulsion. Instead, the Baltimore Catechism says that God made man “to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in heaven” (Question 6). The God of Love has created us so that we may love Him, and then bask in His Love forever. In the previous paragraph, we questioned whether Yahweh could “love” a universe. We can see now that He created the universe as an act of Love towards us, the beings that He had not yet created (pointing in a way to His omniscience).
So how did our contenders create man? Yahweh, as with the universe, took the simple route in creating man. He picked up some dust, formed it into a man, and then breathed life into his nostrils (Genesis 2:7). The Demiurge again took the roundabout way and first created intermediate gods, and instructed them to create the body of the man, and he would attach the soul to the body (Plato 55-57). In the universe of Necessity, the Demiurge makes the intermediate gods do it because anything he creates would necessarily be immortal, and in order for the universe to be more perfect, it needs mortal beings. He is remote, as necessity dictates. Yahweh, on the other hand, gives of His very Self when He forms the man out of dust, and then breathes His own Spirit into him, thus making the man in His own Image, thereby making the man capable of the love that God desires for him.
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- it would be dreadful to say one is, when one is not. 
I find these separations very persuasive, whereas I don’t find the notion that (say) Gen. 3 is an historical text at all persuasive, let alone convincing. 
