The First Choice
God did not create sin — He created the possibility of genuine trust.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
— Genesis 1:26 (ASV)
"And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day."
— Genesis 1:31 (ASV)
"And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
— Genesis 2:9 (ASV)
"And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of 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 (ASV)
"Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?"
— Genesis 3:1 (ASV)