I  have a few questions, and I would like whoever would attempt answering them to give each question sound consideration before responding. I wouldn't like half baked or regurgitated answers but answers that are the product of deep and serious reasoning. Also, I wouldn't like this to devolve into an insult fest, so if you feel strongly about certain things, bridle your tongue - or fingers.

1) Can God sin? Someone has already asked this question on another thread, but I want to look at it in greater perspective. Let's back it up a little - when God said "let's create man in our image", it should follow that God just wasn't talking about physical form. It's also about cognition and character. One of God's characteristics is perfection, and if Adam and Eve were created perfect, how come they still sinned? If they were created perfect and yet sinned, can we logically deduce that God can also commit what we regard as sin?

"But they were tempted", is the response I can see some have prepared. Well, let's back it up a bit further, to the Father of sin, the devil or lucifer (there are arguments that lucifer is not the devil but that is a digression here). Now Lucifer was an angel in heaven and committed the sin of pride. If God created everything in heaven and everything in heaven is perfect, how come Lucifer sinned, in spite of being a creature of perfection? Was he also tempted to think himself as greater than God? If that was the case, who tempted him (remember, a perfect being) to see himself as comparable with God? And by extension, is it possible that angels in heaven can still be tempted to fall right now?

2) Will God Take Away Free Will after Christ's second coming? Pursuant to my previous question on Lucifer's fall, one might be tempted to say God gave him free will and that was why he chose to consider pride in his heart. However, what is to say that after Christ's second coming, and people have been ruptured and death and the devil have been cast in hell, someone else in heaven wouldn't also get corrupted? Would it mean, by making heaven, your free will will be taken away so that you only do and think what God wants you and so we don't have another situation of someone getting proud and the same cycle starting all over again?

3) Who really tempted Eve? In spite of the fact that we generally believe that it was the devil that tempted our first parents, the Bible never expressly said so. It only said the serpent was wily and cunning but it never said it was possessed by the devil. Even when they were being cursed, the serpent was never addressed as the devil and, if the serpent was possessed by the devil, then we truly can't blame it for its actions as it was just serving as a channel for something more powerful than it to operate, hence, there would have been no need to curse the serpent as well. So how come the serpent, if it wasn't possessed by the devil, could tempt Adam to sin? If we do say that the serpent was possessed by the devil or was the devil, how come God allowed the devil into his garden of perfection, knowing that it's distinctly possible that the devil would also tempt his creation to sin and also knowing what the consequences of the success of such a venture would be? If it wasn't the devil, then would it follow that serpent was "smarter" than both Adam and Eve, in knowing what was what and what God had placed in the garden. That would also mean the serpent had a higher level of cognition and thought than the first humans, which would make it closer to God in a particular likeness than they were.