Hello my friend,

I am delighted that you comment here. Thank you very much! Since I love to debate and you give the mandate, I will do so and jump right in - I will answer in different comments to what you have said :)

If God created everything and is all knowing, then of course he would have seen this coming right?

Right - that applies in general, just like when parents suspect that certain prohibitions or commandments will be disobeyed by their children at some point; it's not a question of "if", but "when". However, they do not know precisely about the act itself and its consequences. Parents do not have sole sovereignty over their children, as these go out into the world and come into contact with it. Anyone who is caught lying or stealing as a child, for example, will encounter people other than their parents who will react to their lying or stealing in one way or another.

If a father says to his eleven-year-old: "Don't go on the ice, it might break in", he doesn't know for sure whether his son will leave it alone or do it anyway, unless he has him under complete control. Which he doesn't have. Some morning or afternoon, the son goes outside to play with others and will do something forbidden. And experiencing the consequence of what one disregards; an important part of growing up.

Genesis can be viewed, I think, in such a way that God cannot be omnipotent and -present in the same sense that parents cannot be to their children. The creation of life (through the act of child-making and child-rearing) is indeed the most potent thing that living beings bring about and it is also omnipresent, since it is an uninterrupted process since the beginning of life (or, is assumed to be so).
As humans differ from animals - and they do - Genesis, in its enigmatic way, explains the emergence of human consciousness and conscience.

How else would you "do" it? If you think of God as a great mystery, yet you agree on the notion that life neither emerged through sheer solid celestial bodies, crashing into each other through laws of physics, nor through coincidence alone, but you think of some inexplicable "intelligence" - does it not make you wonder? And remain in wondering?

As I tried to illustrate in my text, God is not completely in control of his children. For if he had already created them in such a way that they already understood his, their own and the existence of all things, why would he have created them in the first place? God can be interpreted as an entity that has the power of creation, but still does not fully know the entire path of it. Let's call it a curious God or one who wants to be surprised.

Most logical minds would agree that a child cannot be blamed for its innocent 'mistake' if the child was to act opposite of the directive given by the parent(s).

I say that a child who breaks into the ice or burns or cuts itself because it was careless, although it was urged to be careful by its parents, then already bears the consequences of its actions itself, for example by getting wet and cold, by cutting or otherwise injuring itself. Innocence does not protect anyone from consequences, not even children. Parents do not yet give their children the responsibility for this, of course not when they are still very young. From a certain age, however, a child should definitely feel the consequences of their infringements. That's why they have to be taught beforehand.

So, I am still puzzled. There must be a reason why Adam and Eve had not been depicted by the artists as children but as mature adults, clearly distinct by their sex. Any thoughts on that?