Man took away man’s free-will by rebelling against God.
God laid it all out in Genesis 3, what HE expected of man for man to continue living in glory with Him. HE told them there would be consequences for them if they broke His commandment, DO NOT EAT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD OR EVIL FOR IN THE DAY THAT YOU DO, YOU SHALL SURELY DIE, and they chose to break it anyway. What is a just and holy God to do when man violates the commandment of God? God chose to have mercy on them and did not let them die, but kicked them out of glory with Him. They died spiritually. That is called the fall. No longer was Adam walking in glory, he had all that stripped away as punishment for breaking God’s commandment. SO STOP BLAMING IT ON GOD!
Your picture above is common, but what's common has quite a few flaws that can't pass legitimate scriptural critique.
For example, Adam was God's son, Luke 3:38. Did God then bear a problem child? Seems rather odd doesn't it?
Paul tells us that the law is for the lawless, 1 Tim. 1:9. We can certainly look at the command, "do not eat" and see that it's a form of law with consequences for disobedience. The more interesting observation though is, did God bear lawless children or a lawless child in Adam? Reverse that back to God and there's an issue.
And where is the accounting for the tempter, the devil in the account? We can read Jesus and hear that where the Word is sown, Satan "enters the heart" to steal the Word, Mark 4:15. IF this is true, then it happened to Adam and at that point of entry, of the tempter into the mind/heart of Adam we can see an entirely different and far more accurate picture.
Adam was never just Adam. It was Adam, the son of God, bound with the tempter in his dust pile body. Same with Eve.
NOW it makes much more sense why Adam got the law delivered to him in the first place, because the "lawless one" was already in his head and that is who the law was delivered to. It was a foregone conclusion that disobedience would then surface because that's what the lawless one does, breaks the law. Adam was along for the downhill slide. We can even see Eve violating the law in her mind long before she ate the apple. She recounted the law wrong. She was enticed by the prospects of eating the fruit, just as John noted in 1 John 2:16, the pattern of sin in the world. And we know that sin is in fact "of the devil," so why are we blaming either of them and ignoring the enemy of us all? It's just blindness to do so, imposed on believers because they just can't quite get the picture in focus, because Mark 4:15 is a reality for all of us, no exceptions.
As soon as a person perceives the tempter in our own sorry hides things start to make more sense, and we learn to bring that party to the table for ourselves and even for everyone else. The evil in the world is then soooo obvious as to WHO is behind it ALL. That old red dragon, Satan, the devil.
So why do we keep blaming people? We shouldn't is the answer. We can all point to the tempter in ourselves.
But then again that really was God's Plan from the beginning according to Paul. God had always planned to put His children here on earth strictly for temporary reasons and He bound us to disobedience, Romans 11:32, Eph. 2:2. This walking dust pile had no eternal plans whatsoever. It was always meant to be only temporary and Satan then is merely the tool of our collective terminations in the flesh, doing what that predator was always meant to do, to KILL. The ultimate orca in the spiritual sea of humanity, feeding off us all.
Paul elaborates on this in many places, the most succinct being in 1 Cor. 15:42-46. WE all are planted in weakness, corruption and dishonor in a natural body that is doomed to eventual termination and THEN we all move on, as spirits, MADE spirits by God. When the body dies the spirit returns to God who gave it, Eccl. 12:7, supposedly the better for the experiences, primarily being the hope of glory via the realized and ever needed Mercy of God in Christ. A genuine experience for everyone, sad as it can often be in the here and now.
Fortunately we have all been given a slice of love from our Father, to see us through along our way.
