God created man in His own image so that man could express Him. This is why God created man with a special organ, his human spirit, that was the same in essence as God Himself. God is Spirit and He created man with a human spirit so that man could contain Him. But God had no intention of forcing or coercing man to carry out His desire. Instead He allowed man to have a real choice.
Gen. 2:8 says, "And Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there He put the man whom He had formed." A garden is a pleasant place with an abundance of fruit. This is confirmed by verse 9 which says, "And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, as well as the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Thus God was taking care of both man's physical and psychological needs when He put him in that garden because the trees were both good for food and pleasant to the sight. But besides this there were two extraordinary trees in the garden. The first was called "the tree of life" and the other was called "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil". God warned man not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil telling him that he would die if he ate of it (vs. 16-17).
God put these two trees in the garden because He wanted man to make a choice. Our natural concept is that God wants us to choose good and to shun evil but in the garden both good and evil were on the same tree, the tree that lead to death. So what was the real choice? The real choice is not between good and evil but between two persons represented by these two trees. The tree of life represented God Himself as life to man. God wanted man to partake of Him so that He could be man's life. If man would take God as life then he would be living by God's life instead of by his human life. A man living by God as life expresses neither a good man nor a bad man but God Himself.
The other choice, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that brought death, represented God's enemy, Satan. God certainly had a desire concerning which choice man would make. He commanded him with a strong warning not to make the wrong choice. Nevertheless, God let man make the choice. And how was man to make that choice? Simply by eating. It was not a matter of trying to please God. The crucial thing was what man would take in as food. Whatever man would take in would end up being what man would express.
Anyone who knows anything about the Bible knows which choice Adam and Eve made. The result was that something got into man other than the good human nature which God had created in him. From that time onward mankind has had two natures: one that appreciates and desires what is good and a stronger nature that lusts after evil. So people want to be good and like to consider themselves as good but often they cannot overcome temptation and do things that are evil damaging themselves and others.
This is exactly what the world in general is expressing. There are many good things in the world but its tendency is toward evil. If you consider the real situation of the world you can see that it is filled with violence and evil and that, despite the best efforts of countless people both small and great, the violence and evil are increasing. In short, the world is developing into a full expression of the evil nature of Satan.
Today no one can change the choice that Adam made in the garden. The world rushes on toward the day in which it will fully reject God and openly side with Satan. But part of the gospel of Jesus Christ is that He has given each individual the same choice that Adam had. We were born into the Satan corrupted world but we do not need to remain there. We can choose to come back to God through receiving Christ as life. That choice was reopened when Jesus died on the cross to take care of all the problems that resulted from Adam making the wrong choice in the garden. God has made Himself available to all men but He still forces Himself on no one. We need to invite Him into our heart if we want to receive Him.