God's actions in Eden are unjustifiable?

The Adam and Eve story is not supposed to make sense.

>And if God forced people he created with curiosity to live in a confined space for eternity

That would be implying that anyone these days knows how big Eden was. It could have been bigger than NYC. We don't know.

>how could he possibly expect Adam and Eve to not eat a fruit that was sitting right in the middle of the garden?

He gave them access to all of the other trees. If the garden were about the size of NYC (hypothetically) there would have been plenty of other trees to eat from, perhaps thousands. God created the possibility of evil, as he gave them free will to choose to obey him or not. We (Adam and Eve) made evil a reality.

The whole story is allegory and was never meant to be taken literally. It is so full of logical holes why bother with just that one? The logic is bad. The god portrayed is a first class SOB. The facts do not align with reality.

"God's actions in Eden are unjustifiable?"

By who's standard? You don't get to judge God, your Creator.

Your right, SIN is Justifiable by GOD! No Sin = Eternal Life.

Eden was their home and God only said to tend to it and care for it. This doesn't mean they are confined to it. Your house is your home and you take care of it, that doesn't mean you can never leave it.

Humans decided their own fates.

What?

Confined space?

If you know as much of the story as you seem to, you must also know God told them to expand the garden to eventually include the whole earth. Genesis 1:28.

If the garden included the whole planet, the "tree" would not be sitting right in the middle, would it?

Besides, the tree would not be there forever. It ws a test of obedience.

Once Adam passed the test, the tree is just a tree.

You are likely not going to understand this, but it is like asking why would a loving parent have a cookie jar on a shelf that kids are forbidden to climb up and get into and get a cookie?

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was meant for later, just like the cookie jar. Humanity was just out of it's infancy, aware of themselves being separate entities from God and able to act separately, to go against God. The story of the Bible is the story of God's relationship to human beings, human spiritual development throughout history. Genesis was written for a child to understand, but now that we are adults, we can understand it with much more depth and symbolism than the ancients did.

But, they were told what would happen if they ate that fruit..that they would die. And, they believed in the serpent..not in God, so what happened to them is justified. And, because they set the standards for the rest of humankind, God sacrificing His only Son to reconcile with humankind is also justified and a beautiful example of His mercy.