Man enjoyed a simple, straightforward relationship with God at first. In the Garden, Adam and Eve were given opportunity to choose to continue their relationship with God, that is what the fruit was intended to grant: free will. Every day they chose to be with God by not choosing the fruit. The only reason to choose the fruit was to pursue, as a created being, equality with the omniscient, omnipotent Creator who gave them life and a perfect, unsullied, idyllic existence. They wanted more than the perfection offered, believing they could do and know better than God. By choosing the fruit rather than God, they chose to embrace their pride and arrogance, and went from perfect created beings to flawed, imperfect beings. Laws of thermodynamics and entropy dictate that any subsequent copy will be lesser than the original, especially when the original was hand-crafted by a perfect being especially for daily operation in the environment for which they were intended to live, Eden, an environment they were no longer allowed to occupy due to violating its simple rules. The subsequent copies received simple rules at first, but continued to engage in more and greater depravity with time. As such, more rules and guidelines became necessary, along with more extreme punishment for their failure to abide. Even The Law of Moses was a punishment for Israel’s rejection of God at Sinai. They were given a chance at direct communion and life with God, albeit in a diffused state, and they said, “no, just give us your rules and guidelines, we’ll follow those, don’t worry, we don’t need you.” So, God handed them a laundry list of impossible to uphold laws as a demonstration of how fallible they were and how much they truly needed Him. They failed miserably, as expected. This necessitated Christ, God Himself incarnate. The perfect one who would live the life God demanded - flawless - and would die on our behalf, freeing us from the need to follow the Law, because He fulfilled it.