Originally Posted by Skepticologist

If there was a fall of man, which I seriously doubt, it was brought about by the propensities with which god (whom I seriously doubt, at least in a christian context) created him.

It's like a supreme being, who is referred to as god, brought inferior beings, referred to as humans, into existence with a predisposition to behave in ways he deplored. And when they behaved in ways consistent with how he created them, he banished them from the garden and, even worse, under the christian dispensation, sentenced them to an eternity of untold torment.

The christian response to such an assertion involves free will, i.e. god set you up to fail, but you can still choose to succeed against overwhelming odds, if only you summon the will, from somewhere within your god-induced depraved self, to do so.