"like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation" (1 Peter 2:2).
"Before Abraham was, I AM" (John 8:58).
"you did not choose Me, but I chose you" (John 15:16).
"I chose you out of the world" (John 15:19, includes salvation).
The English word "choose" has a Hebrew word equivalent of "בָּחר" (bachar -Strong's Number 977).
The Hebrew word "בָּחר" does not occur in the creation account (Genesis 1:1-31 Genesis 2:1- 25 Genesis 3:1-24).
"Choose" does not occur in the Word here:
and commanded YHWH God to the man, saying "Of every tree in the garden to eat you will be eating, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, not eating from, when in the day you are to eat of it to die you will be dying" (Genesis 2:16-17,
this post in this thread examines the Hebrew to find tje words "freely", "surely", and "may" do not occur in Genesis 2:16-17 or
easier to read original of the examination, but off ChristianityBoard.com).
Wynona, in Truth, Adam was commanded to eat of every tree of the garden with the exception of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Furthermore, God did not say "you may choose to eat...".
See that action is expressed, not choice, but action.
The actions include "eat", "not eat", and "die".
Again, God did not say "you have the ability to choose, so...".
"Choose" does not occur in scripture here:
"When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make [one] wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate" (Genesis 3:6).
Again, here is action, not choice, but action.
The passage does not say "and he chose to eat".
The passage does say "and he ate".
An "implication" occurs when a person makes an inference upon a subject matter for which no underlying explicit text exists. The Word of God does not explicitly state that Adam had the ability to "choose", so you add the implicit "choice" by way of your thoughts as opposed to the pure milk of the Word of God.
Wynona, that which God knows will happen absolutely comes to pass.
No purpose of God's can be thwarted (Job 42:2).
Adam could not avoid eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
As to cause for Adam eating of the forbidden tree for food, here is the Word of God declaring the CAUSE with "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'" (Genesis 3:17).
I appreciate the effort.
As a parting point for this post:
Despite the Creation account in Genesis 1-3 being silent about man's "will", there exists Apostolic teaching on the matter of man's "will" with regard to the creation account.
Adam did not exercise willpower to disobey God's command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:16-17) for Paul wrote "the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly" (Romans 8:20, NASB); therefore, Adam did not make a choice, not a willing choice, to eat.
A "choice" by Adam is explicitly excluded by using scripture with scripture referencing, in fact, "the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly" (Romans 8:20, KJV), so Adam acted not willingly but rather acted subject to vanity in his eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
"Not willingly" indicates "not choice".
Some people may claim that Paul was referring to a timeframe exclusively after what they call "the fall" (after Adam ate of the tree [Genesis 3:6]), but the continuity of the passage of Romans 8:20-22must be taken as a whole.
Paul left no room for disputing to the timeframe for which "not willingly" applies, for Paul also wrote "we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now" (Romans 8:22), and the phrase "until now" is the timeframe's most recent limiting factor which memes that all times prior to "now" are included, so "the whole creation" includes the moment after God breathed into Adam's nostrils the breath of life (Genesis 2:7) until Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:6); therefore, we can be certain that Paul includes the timeframe that Adam ate of the tree in the travailing/groaning because Paul wrote of all of this in the same passage, i.e. Romans 8:20-22.
Paul includes the "not willingly" (Romans 8:20-22) to apply to the time that Adam ate of the tree (Genesis 3:6).
No scripture states Adam was created with a free will just as the original post shows; therefore, Adam nor anyone after Adam had a freewill.