From a ‘Net friend:

God made us free, so that we could choose whether or not to be sinful.

A good fictional account of what *could* have happened can be read in “Perelanda” (that is the original title: published these days as “Voyage to Venus”) by C.S. Lewis. It is the story of a couple on Venus who were tempted to sin but didn’t, and the tempter was overcome by an opponent from another planet.

Shalom!

Rowland Croucher