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"God created the potential for that attitude. Satan chose that attitude."
You say that man and Satan have the same attitudes. I agree. That is what your God created us to have.
Christians are always trying to absolve God of moral culpability in the fall by whipping out their favorite "free will!", or “ it’s all man’s fault”.
That is "God gave us free will and it was our free willed choices that caused our fall. Hence God is not blameworthy."
But this simply avoids God's culpability as the author of Human Nature. Free will is only the ability to choose. It is not an explanation why anyone would want to choose "A" or "B" (bad or good action). An explanation for why Eve would even have the nature of "being vulnerable to being easily swayed by a serpent" and "desiring to eat a forbidden fruit" must lie in the nature God gave Eve in the first place. Hence God is culpable for deliberately making humans with a nature-inclined-to-fall, and "free will" means nothing as a response to this problem.
If all sin by nature then, the sin nature is dominant. If not, we would have at least some who would not sin.
Regards
DL
Are we to say that God would be guilty for forcing us to do what he says -but also guilty for allowing us to have whatever attitude and take whatever action we choose?
The only way for God to not be "guilty" under that reasoning would be to not have created creative individual beings.
The point is that the "nature" God gave Eve in the first place could not have been otherwise INSTANTANEOUSLY.
The better "nature" requires that the individual -angel or human -master being what they are and master their circumstances.
It requires that they learn their nature and the nature of their environment -and become masters of both.
That requires a period of time between initial awareness and mastery.
Part of our nature is the ability to choose our own attitudes -which is necessary for true individuality and creativity.
Until we
know enough, we
cannot have a proper attitude toward reality.
Satan and Eve were
told the truth, but they did not
know that it
was the truth.
Rather than being cautious, they acted in ignorance on their doubts and incorrect beliefs -and will prove by the results thereof that God was telling the truth.
God very much understood this could happen.
God did not create the attitude -God created the potential for the attitude.
He is responsible -but not guilty of anything. He had already planned for this -and that plan will make all things new.
Initially, all things were new, but unstable. All things will be new again, but stable -because the potential for doubt will have been removed.
It is exactly like the attitudes of children. Children are new, inexperienced, ignorant, etc. -but innocently so (but that can turn otherwise).
When people have children, they should expect that "attitude", because it is the result of perfectly good and natural desires coupled with inexperience.
I want this. Why can't I have that? Why don't you let me whatever?
Satan is essentially a rebellious child -but an extremely powerful one who has chosen an adversarial attitude.
God considers both actions and attitude in the discipline he carries out for our eventual benefit -as even any good human parent should.
It is incorrect to think that God created angels and men -and then things went haywire and God lost control.
The truth is that our initial creation was only the beginning of the process of our creation.
After our initial creation is a process of spiritual perfection -and it was the plan from the beginning.
Sin
IS dominant initially. Why? Because righteousness (doing things the right way) is something which must be developed over time.
"Hence God is culpable for deliberately making humans with a nature-inclined-to-fall"
"Culpable" implies that he did something wrong, but it was not wrong for him to create us in an initial state of being able to make mistakes.
God claims full responsibility for our initial nature.
He does not
blame us for it -he holds us
responsible and
accountable when appropriate, because our perfect end nature requires that we be responsible and accountable.
It could not have been otherwise given the intended end result.
Furthermore, because God is responsible for causing our initial state of imperfection (as with any project which is not yet complete), he is also responsible for making things right.
He will do so. That has been the plan all along, but we have the ability to complain, whine and throw tantrums before he is finished.
When he is finished, everything will be perfect. This present state of imperfection will no longer be -and will eventually not be remembered.
Rev_3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Rev 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Rev 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Rev 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Jas 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Rev 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Isa_65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. 
