God knows what the world is like with and without free will in the garden . He chose the prior . I ' m not all knowing , so I cannot possibly look over all of human history in the past and future to know if it truly is better for us to have not had free will . Oh I ' m not going to strictly argue free will vs . none , but that ' s something of a false dichotomy . God could have set it up so that we had free will but no ability to sin . I have free will , yes ? Yet I cannot fly under my own physical power . I cannot drink magma without dying . I cannot snuff stars with a thought . Sin could have been like so created so that what God finds sinful is toxic to us , or beyond our ability . And more properly , I ' m not precisely arguing that god should have made things differently , though such an argument can be made . I ' m arguing that with the two omni traits of his , he is literally responsible for everything , including the fall . That he cannot possibly avoid responsibility for such . Thus , the fall must be part of his plan , something he either allowed or directly caused , as the difference between the two for an omnietc . being is moot . Why would god settle for an inferior covenant ? He didn ' t . That ' s why he sent Jesus Christ . I didn ' t specify which one was inferior . If you ' d say the latter is superior , why ' d he go with the former to begin with ? So because you can ' t think that there could be an explanation for those , you assume God does not exist ? We should find if Christianity is true or not . If it is true , then there may well be an explanation that we don ' t understand . To answer the question , no of course I don ' t . To say this is bad , therefore it must be false is just as bad as saying this is good , therefore it must be true it would be an Argument from Concequences , and that ' s fallacious . Heck , I ' m not even arguing that those things can ' t be explained I explain them as cultural artifacts from the people writing or passing down the myths in the first place . Barbarous , warlike tribes have barbarous , warlike gods when strength and pride and such things are idolized , the idols tend to posses those traits . The aforementioned are reasons I don ' t find your god particularly moral , and nor worthy of worship or adoration . They ' re the things I ' d need excused or explained before I ' d even consider worshiping your god should I first be convinced that it existed . The reason I think it doesn ' t exist is the failure to meet the burden of proof the grand lack of evidence and in many cases falsifiability or convincing arguments that he does exist , coupled with the myriad of other mutuallyexclusive gods and such thing that other folks have cooked up with the same sorts of evidence suggested in their support . With literally thousands of gods man has come up with , and unnumbered variations and sects who are divided in opinion about those , all of which have the same lackofevidence going on , the simple odds are that any given one of them is wrong . This only gets worse when you consider that new godconcepts and versions of established gods spring up over time , and there are a nearinfinite number of gods folks could further imagine , more than have ever actually been thought up . With no evidence at hand , and in many cases none that could ever be had , and a wide , wide list of mutuallyexclusive godconcepts the simple odds are that any one is wrong , and there ' s a distinct possibility that all of them are . There are no gods I believe exist . This is for the same reason that I also do not believe in the existence of unicorns , leprechauns , dragons , sprites , kappa , and recipes that would be improved by the addition of Brussels sprouts . I am willing to be convinced otherwise on any of these accounts , but not without sufficient evidence . If you have things you believe would prove or disprove Christianity , feel free to bring them up . I find that most versions of Christianity are unfalsifiable the important claims being made cannot be disproved and so cannot be supported , but I will gladly entertain claims to the contrary . With that established , your following statement . We must trust in God that he , in his infinite wisdom and foresight , knows what is right . is at best premature . In fact , it takes the form of an Argument from Consequences merely because it would be nicer if god knows whats right doesn ' t make that so . And back to where we started , if your proposed god is the Biblical one , I think we have reason enough to question that premise in the first place . This is a view invented by Anselm . It is not taught by the Orthodox Church , and was not taught at all in the first millennium of Christianity . Oops , didn ' t notice the Orthadox flair my mistake . Sorry most of the folks I talk to follow the Western traditions , so I tend to default to addressing those . With that said , and the rest of what you wrote taken as a given , I ' m still not quite sure my argument is invalidated . I ' d like to ask a couple of questions to see if it can still be constructed in a way that fits with your position , or if it actually doesn ' t apply at all . First , when you say death do you mean a form of nonexistence , or something else ? Second , what constitutes rejection of god ' s love or , in other words , what merits hell ? Third , and slightly offtopic but for better understanding , if God wanted to grant eternal life to folks , why does the Eden story in Genesis specifically mention that God cast man out because he feared they would eat from the tree of eternal life and be like him ?