But a Pearl follower might say that God simply putting the tree there in the first place was setting up for failure. An atheist I know IRL has brought up the same argument to me. She explained that she would not leave a freshly baked batch of brownies in front of her dh and older children, as well as the younger, b/c even though they have the impulse control not to eat it, it would not be fair to knowingly and purposefully place tempting things in front of people. She says it would be totally wrong of God to needlessly test like that. I don't know what to say to her, so I'm