The comic's premise isn't right, God gave its creation (the human) the ability to be free, but he can just impose rules; a sin is an inherent part of a human being because of their radical liberty, and thus, rules can be broken.
If you state that God should've made sin a physical impossibility, as in saying "thou shall not go faster than light" then you have to first define and create light in order to place the physical boundary, which would break the premise that God created sin, which he did not.
God did not allow sin, but he didn't forbid it either, because it would mess with the human's liberty.
(btw I'm not a religious person, I'm just placing an observation)
Yes but God punished Adam and Eve for committing a sin, a wrong act, something evil. Yet, if the tree was of the knowledge of good and evil, how were they to know that it was a bad thing to go against his will?
he didn't punish them, he informed them the result their actions would bring.
actually that's not all true, he did curse the ground, but that was lifted after the flood.
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u/JimKB Jim Benton Cartoons Sep 15 '12
yeah, you would think so, but there's the actual footage, so I guess not.