I appreciate you reading my post and giving a good follow up question!
I think it's important to remember the LORD'S words where He said that He established the END from the beginning, and that the END that we are given is unto a New Beginning. We are also told that the LORD is a potter over the clay.
Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Such a verse relates to God molding us, it's not about our beginning but what we BECOME in the END which God had prepared for us before He made the world. Similar we are told that our God is a consuming fire, and we are the metal put in the fire and are by such refined.
Your question is like the one Paul speaks of in Romans 9,
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 25 As he saith also in O see, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. 26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
As my understanding is that Adam and Eve were flesh/carnal, their mind/brain likewise is of flesh. God gave MAN even before the fall DESIRES, Eve wanted to eat the fruit as she thought it would TASTE GOOD, she likewise hoped it would make her wise, she desired WISDOM. She indeed walked after the desires according to her nature.
What would man be if God didn't give him any desires or pleasures for when those desires are fulfilled? Life would be numb and meaningless I suppose.
God is all knowing, all powerful, and we are but a creation of His.
By our nature verses His we are opposites, but yet in our very nature we desire that which He is.
He is wise full of wisdom and knowledge, we are ignorant but we desire wisdom and knowledge. God is of power, glory and honor, we have a natural desire for those things as well. The natural desires God gave to our carnal minds just mentioned are that which He is! Man being ignorant he does not know that the SOURCE to obtain the natural DESIRES of his human mind/spirit can only come from God. If man had them to begin with however he wouldn't know the source and would live a lie thinking they were of himself, and there would be no truth and no honor to the source, our One True God.
Eve thought she could obtain her desire for wisdom by eating fruit, she reasoned in her ignorant mind and ate the fruit going her own way, which exposed her error, her foolishness and proved to her in at least that instance that her Creator was true. The bible teaches us that we need to learn from God, we need God to direct our ways, we need the fruits of His Spirit being given and dwelling in us.
Romans 8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Man's state of flesh is of an IGNORANT mind, without the mercy of God and His given wisdom and understanding, man can only imagine what the truth is through his own reasoning, all he is capable of doing not having the source of truth is produce superstitions and lies, foolishness not wisdom, as he seeks to fulfill his natural desires.
We need God in order to truly fulfill the carnal mind's desires that God gave us, the fact that our natural mind does not know it yet and was given the capability to imagine what the truth might be, is where the enmity lives, BUT it is only a temporary state because God's plan from the beginning was to mold the clay into His image and be ALL in ALL.
God didn't create us as His puppets, where would we be if we didn't have an imagination? How long would it take to teach man the SOURCE of all things that are good, if we had all things in us from the beginning? Earning glory and honor, working for it and having a sense of accomplishment knowing God has been your guide, is far better than just having it handed to you.
Adam and Eve did not have the fruits of God's Spirit, Jesus on the other hand was the only mortal to have received the Spirit not by measure. God had said He would elect one from among the people call him to righteousness and direct all his ways. Jesus said he was being TAUGHT by God, we are told that Jesus was perfected, that he learned obedience by that which he suffered. Psalms 8 tells you that God would be mindful of a man, visit him, make him lower than the angels for the suffering of death and then crown him with glory and honor. Jesus obtained that glory and honor through having been given the Spirit, through God directing all his ways, through him learning and suffering.
