This doesn't solve anything, really. It just replaces a positive action with a negative. Instead of choosing to take the forbidden fruit, they choose not to take the necessary one. Then we're back to the original problem. You would have to ask why two perfect people would choose such a thing. It's the same problem.
The fact is that it's hard to reason why a perfect thing would become imperfect of its own volition. If someone chooses to be imperfect, then the choice demonstrates imperfection already. I run into this sort of logical problem whenever dealing with absolutes. I could write a book on the subject.
That's an argument from silence. Scripture never says a lot of things about Adam and Eve, and what it does say is too short to suggest that such an omission implies anything.
Teachings I’ve read, some going back centuries, include the fact that Adam & Eve were perfect as to their created natures, perfectly
man IOW, just as each part of creation has its own perfection proper to it. But, as a rational being with the gift of free will, man's ultimate perfection isn't attained unless and until he's reached
moral perfection-and this is a contingency only
because it's a matter of the will-
his will. Man was given the knowledge and grace to will rightly and yet he's nonetheless "left in the hands of his own counsel". The law or commandments are written in his heart, aka the "natural law", but he possesses the unique (among creation) and potentially destructive capacity to ignore or override that law. Man is
just only to the extent that he
wills justly, and acts accordingly-and he cannot do this in any kind of consistent and absolute manner unless he's spiritually united with God, and this is exactly the relationship Adam shattered, thinking he could do better going it on his own so to speak.
But…"Apart from Me you can do nothing", John 15:5. That's the New Covenant in a nutshell. The choice to be with or apart from Him is the crux of the matter-and our being
with Him begins with
faith, just as Adam's act was essentially one of unbelief for one thing.
At any rate God is
producing something with this whole endeavor, not merely creating a bunch of worthless wretches and then, at some later date, throwing some in heaven and the rest in hell. He already loves and values man beyond anything we can imagine, and wants more from-but most importantly
for-us than we can imagine.
Man has a limitation; he’s not God. God’s perfection is absolute while man’s is relative. And this means that man is fallible. Regardless of how close to perfection God makes men or angels, God cannot create another God. And ironically this very “fault” is the same ingredient that makes man’s fall possible, once free will is added into the mix. IOW, until man learns for himself that he’s not God, that something much “bigger” and wiser exists above himself, Something he desperately needs, then man is lost.
This is the wisdom that we’re here to gain. Here are some teachings I’m familiar with and have come to appreciate:
1731 Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one's own responsibility. By free will one shapes one's own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude.
1732 As long as freedom has not bound itself definitively to its ultimate good which is God, there is the possibility of choosing between good and evil, and thus of growing in perfection or of failing and sinning.
Until we truly love God with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, probably not fully attainable until the next life, things are not in order, justice does not yet reign in man’s heart.
