The essence of God = Unconditional Love – Power – practically, God desired to give us the ability freely to both discern – a complex process which comes through tasting good and evil, and rejecting the latter for the former – and continuously both developing our heightened Divine and human, and of-course intra-personal (self-development) relationship/s (the mechanism as mentioned, is through trial and error, lesson and growth – that’s the whole story, from beginning to infinite)