In my Medium post titled, "Was the Biblical Adam Cognitive? (10/05/2018)", I show how, in a perfect world, Adam could disagree with God as to essence that qualifies as a 'wife' to he, Adam. God would go on to accede to Adam's cognition, choose to provide him with Eve, exactly the essence Adam wished for - 'bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh'. If you read the account in Genesis Chapter 2, God did not ask Adam what he wanted, because He knew - the test of presenting the animals to Adam to choose from was to demonstrate to the universe that this being (man) that He, God had created has his own distinct mind, soul, and spirit, is not an extension of God.
In a perfect world within which man is not an extension of God, growth would come from our interactions with God, and perhaps corrections of our imperfect yet sinless recognitions of God - if we know as much as God, we are not man, have become God. But 'if man is man', that is, created by God, man cannot be God, hence relative to God's, man's knowledge always must be regarded to be imperfect. It is straightforward that there does not exist any contradiction between 'sinless' and 'imperfect in knowledge'. For illustration, there were men, such as Aristotle who lived noble, wise lives, but yet believed the sun revolved around the earth.
Well, we know better now, but then are we as wise and noble as Aristotle?
With respect to possibility of arrival at corrections of our perceptions of God in a perfect world, one of my recent posts on Medium titled, "How does a ‘Sinless Son’ require Perfection? Resolving a Seeming Contradiction (09/11/2021)" shows how Jesus Christ disagreed initially with God in respect of estimates of man's cognition, but eventually arrived at the same understanding as God, namely "absent the Spirit of God on the inside of man, man does not arrive at desire to, progressively at every point in time become more like God in essence, character, and actions." If the only begotten Son's (Jesus Christ's) perception of things can, through evidence become more aligned with that of The Father (God), much more that of man who only can be adopted as son of God.
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