Adam freely chooses to sin.
Why did Adam freely decide to sin?
Adam decided to sin because the motive to sin was the greatest motivation at the moment Adam freely chose to sin.
Why was the motive to sin the greatest motivation at the moment Adam freely chose to sin?
Was it because …
(1) Adam determined for himself, as a volitional, moral agent, that he would act upon the motive to sin and thereby made it the greatest motivation?
(2) God determined that He would not give Adam the grace that was necessary and sufficient to make the motive to obey and love God the greatest motive? Such that God intentionally made certain that the motive to sin would be greater than the motive to obey and love God. In other words, God necessitated that Adam would freely decide to sin and He made it impossible for Adam to be capable of deciding to refrain from sinning.
There is no middle ground in this. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. If we take (1) then Determinism and, by extension, Calvinism are necessarily false. If we take (2) then God is the author of sin because the only possible way for the motive in Adam to sin to overcome the motive in Adam to obey and love God is for God to intentionally supply insufficient divine grace. Therefore, the Drop explains the Fall. That is, Adam sinned only because God was not faithful to provide the way of escape.
