Thief
Rogue Theologian
It does look that way, doesn't it.
But that present another baggage of problem, if you know what I mean.
According to Christian teaching - or at least in the 2 churches that I nearly joined when I was a teenager - God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent.
If God was omniscient, or all-knowing, then why experiment in the 1st place, especially if God knew beforehand that they would fail the disobedient test (eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, when God told them not to)?
If God was omniscient and knew that they would be tempted to eat the forbidden fruit, then why would he plant the Tree there in the 1st place?
God either wanted them to fail or he is not wise as he led us to believe, especially if this is a test or an experiment.
Having altered the body and reset the mind of Man.....
the 'tree of knowledge event was needed.
Some say it was a test.
I can deal with that.
The terms were simple enough.
Would Man be that creature curious beyond any thread of death?
Would he seek knowledge knowing the acquisition might kill him?
We are that creature.
We actually DID pass the test.