And you keep failing to provide an explanation for how this allows free will when our choices are inevitable.
And yet again, you are ignoring the thornier problem of god determining the outcome of all events by decree. Simply denying he does it is not an argument what there is conclusive textual evidence that he does.
Before Adam and Eve ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, humans were like the animals, under the laws of natural human instinct. Instinct is different from knowledge of good and evil in the sense instinct is more or less linear; 1-D, based on the circumstances. Knowledge of good and evil is a binary or a 2-D concept. It is one thing, but with two options. This extra option is how choice appeared.
If you are a hunter, you can track and find specific species of game based on understanding their instinctive nature. The deer does not have a choice to act like a bear to disguise his path. Instead all deer will behave a certain natural and instinctive way, allowing one to anticipate where to find them, even before you start the hunt. Instinct comes from the inside and is engrained in our DNA. It would be driven by the will of God in the sense of being preordained.
Knowledge of good and evil is not innate knowledge that is connected to one's species' DNA. Knowledge of good and evil comes from outside you and is a learned type of behavior. This learned behavior breaks down choices for behavior into two paths; good or evil, which often are both subjective and/or relative to the times.
A good example, are the marijuana laws of good and evil in the USA. These laws of good and evil are different in different states. In one state, marijuana is defined as good, while in the next state over, it is defined as evil. This is not consistent like a universal law of animal instinct. This makes this law subjective and not objective. You can choose this behavior in one state and it will be considered acceptable. However, in the other state, it will be taboo with fire and brimstone. The outcomes of your choices can be different based in which state your choice is made. Unlike human nature, which is the same for all humans, knowledge of good and evil is not uniform for the entire species. It can be niche for each culture or subculture. One size of knowledge of good and evil does not fit all.
In the Old Testament, Israel was often allowed to be conquered and even forced into exile. The Lord, through the prophets, would deem the correct and expected choice of behavior in advance, while these negative outcomes would be attributed to the bad or illegal choices of Israel. The good and evil paths were defined by God, in advance, but they would not always be chosen. This was often due to the influence of other cultures, who defined good and evil, for the same behavior, in other ways, due to the subjective nature of law.
Pork, for example, was not considered evil everywhere. But this choice was against the niche law of good and evil that Israel needed to obey. Choice appears when we have more than one option for the same behavior; eating pork. While the ambiguity of two legal systems that contradict each other makes what should be an easy choice, less clear cut. This is why death comes into the world; someone will be pissed off, even of you follow a law.
The Koala bear does not have a choice to eat or not eat eucalyptus leaves, since his behavior is under 1-D instinct. But humans can choose to have lettuce or spinach, which create a crossroads for choice, with sometimes one choice taboo in some places, and the other overly chosen in other places.
The subjectivity of law can be different in different places. This allows for the development of willpower, since one will be required to narrow your range of choices, based on accepting only one set of subjective law. Israel needed to follow laws that other cultures often defined in different ways. This was a type of training that allowed humans more willpower, leading to new choices at crossroads.
Willpower and choice is not as objective as instinct, but it does have practical value in that more options can be made available than is normal for instinct. For example, each culture has unique foods, which may have an unspoken taboo; bias, within other cultures; culture X is weird so their food is yucky. All these options combined, represent more options for food, which can expand our ability to survive almost anywhere on earth. Humans are omnivores, since this maximizes survival in any environment. But to take advantage, one needs the will to try, even if niche taboo. Once have the will to try, you need to make wise choices.
This change is behavior to 2-D learning, created a new type of human, with Adam the first of this new human subspecies. This new type of human was not based on biology and mutations, but was based on a new state of mind that formed after the invention of written language. As the external invention was extrapolated to new applications, it created a prosthesis for the mind that had the impact of repressing 1-D instinct. Instinct was sublimated with temporal and subjective law of good and evil. War appears when two competing law systems cannot see eye to eye and pose a problem for each other.
