I understand your confusion with this one. But this is probably one of the best examples of freewill. God gives mankind the option to opt out of His love, even though it is so much better and incredible than we can ever imagine. He does this because God is a lover. He wants us to love him not out of programming, or fear, but love. In order to do this He must give us the option to not choose Him. That is what He did in the garden. And we opted out. But praise God, because He still has something better for us despite the fact that we turned our backs on him.
This has probably been discussed ad nauseam but can you give your reasoning for basically setting little-knowing people for a certain failure. Often used comparison is that of parents leaving candy next to a child and then punishing him for taking it.
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