Grand Calvert wrote:What? I choose option c, where God is the very
definition of good, which is what pretty much all Christians believe.
That's option a. God necessarily defines morality. He is good. Else he is either not omnipotent or not omnibenevolent.
And anyways, He did not create sin, Adam and Eve chose to sin.
God decides what sin is. God decides that there is such a thing as sin. God can make eating shellfish sinful and murdering everyone in a town holy. He's the legislative, executive, and judicial branch all in one. He makes the rules. He interprets the rules. And, to some degree, he enforces the rules. He who makes the rules must answer to them. If there are concepts independent of God, then God necessarily is not the beginning of all things in the universe, not the lone creator Christian mythology relies upon. God has created these concepts, so he has to answer for why he did so and why he uses them so.
You see, in order for Adam to truly be loyal to God, which is what He wants, there has to be something else. Something besides God. So that's what the Tree was there for. For Adam to prove his loyalty (which he failed at).
You assume that's the reason the tree of knowledge was there. Where in the bible does it say that, again?