Hello Notch, thanks for responding.

You said:
“So God created flawed humans and set behavior standards they can’t achieve. He then punishes them for not achieving the standards”

No, that’s not how God works.

He doesn’t set a standard, then punish everyone who doesn’t reach up to it. That’s not the message of Genesis, nor the rest of the Bible.

That’s a very human (sinful) way of behaving. Many people behave this way, establishing standards and punishing those who don’t reach them. But that’s not how God works.

God begins by creating paradise and placing his children there to enjoy it. They don’t earn it. They don’t have to build it. They simply get to enjoy it.

God gives them dominion of the world and tells them they will encounter resistance, and they will need to squash it.

When they fail, God does not abandon them. He sticks with them. In Genesis 4, God is a daily part of their lives. They and their children are regularly conversing with God.

God doesn’t want to punish them. God specifically sends them out of Eden so that they will not suffer forever in their state of spiritual separation from him.

We create hell. We sent. We store of wrath against ourselves.

God hates that, and God sacrifices himself on the cross to save us from the hell we create for ourselves.

A God who sacrifices Himself to save us is not a God who is whipping us for failing to meet His standard.