300 Foxes and a Donkey's Jawbone
The Lamb’s Book of Life
The prevailing belief among most people, whether they think it's true or not, is that God created a perfect world which became corrupted through human disobedience. We can see a statement like this in Genesis 1:31.
If Christ became sin for us when God said "let there be light" and the lamb was slain from the foundation of the world, and Christ died on the cross at Calvary, was he offered once, or twice?
In the Bible the tree of life is used to refer to an actual tree which has leaves and fruit, but it's also used euphemistically to refer to the fruits of seeking and gaining wisdom.
Creation was corrupted before Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of Eden. It was created in a corrupted state in order to manifest free will. We can prove it using a process we call deductive questioning.
God created the universe so that we can sin, otherwise there's no free will, and that means God created a universe in which sin is possible. Sin isn't an accident.
In the beginning, the Word was made flesh: in the ending, flesh is made the Word.
There are two issues that help us to understand the reason for why we were created with free will and how this is even possible given the nature of God as pure and holy, not to mention omnipresent and omniscient.
Christ had to become sin for us. This has a meaning which goes beyond the symbolism of Christ on the cross. It goes back to the nature of the matter of which the universe is made.
Jesus Christ, the Word of God, is also called the lamb that was slain [from] the foundation of the world, which we take to mean the lamb that was slain [at] the foundation of the world.
Salvation is a gift of God's grace in exchange for faith, not works. No one's good enough to save themselves, so that can't have been the plan, not ever.