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Had they not eaten from the tree, there wouldn't have been a need for Christ, I agree. But that wasn't necessarily part of God's plan when He created this world. Yes, God can see into the future. If God is perfect, sinless, etc, then why would he want to introduce sin into this world, which is the sole cause of human suffering? Had there been no sin, then it wouldn't matter whether we knew right from wrong, now wouldn't it? God doesn't use his force that he's capable of (as we've seen in The Flood) for two reasons: he promised he wouldn't wipe people from the face of the Earth again; and people would despise their lives knowing they had no control over their future. So God allows us to make our own decisions, for better or worse (morality). He allows us to mess up. He forgives us. He also uses his Holy Spirit, through other people, to call us to Him.
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