i used to say this thing to my kids.....
IF adam had never sinned, and humanity had never been in a "fallen state", the concepts of valour and honour and heroism would not exist.....because in a perfect world there is no need for those qualities
in the perfect world called paradise, that long promised land, there would be no challenges to develop those characteristics that even the present day JWs lay claim to in their stories and tales of resistance and struggle again the "world"
what kind of character, depth of character, can there be without challenge? is that not a formula for shallow and self-centered development?
i dont know... i am asking