Do slave owners create slaves? No, they steal them and take away their freedom - something which wasn't theirs to take.
But slave owners didn't steal them and take away their freedom after the first generation. They inherited already enslaved people, just as the second generation of slaves inherited their slavery. Given that inheritance, the owners had no culpability in the fact that they had the power of life or death over their "possessions", while the slaves, sadly, had never possessed any freedom to have taken away from them.
By accident of birth, one man ends up with the power of life or death over another man. Does that make the first man's edicts moral? Should the man born a slave, through no fault or choice of his own, measure his morality by his obedience to his master?
It would be an objective measure, but would it be the right measure to use?
The creator of a thing gets to set the purpose for that thing. When I create something, it means and does what I want it to mean and do. God created man for the purpose of enjoying a relationship with himself but gave him a choice to break that relationship if he wanted to - which is what love does - gives freedom.
Freedom of choice involves more than a lack of force, Sparky. One of the most important elements of freedom of choice is full and accurate information. God did not give that to Adam. He gave him an order, he never told him why his order made any sense, he never told him about the consequences of disobeying it. He never even warned him about the snake!!
He set a trap, and when Adam fell into it, he misnamed Adam's foolish, ignorant mistake as "free will". Nice excuse for a supposedly omnipotent God to give.
Adam chose to disobey God and break the relationship. And amazingly he didn't get damned, did he. There was a way back - right from the beginning.
Adam didn't know the full consequences of his actions, so it wasn't a free choice. Also, Adam had a major mitigating factor - he only ate the apple to please his wife. The woman created to be his mate, and who God gave him every reason to trust and love.
Given all that, its amazing that a just God would have punished Adam at all. Still more amazing that Adam's progeny would be suffering the consequences of Adam's hogtied "choice" generations later, when even you admit that we are not responsible for any sins other than our own.
There was a way back right from the beginning, though, I agree with you on that point. The way back would be to not allow the snake into the Garden of Eden.
Btw, do you believe that the Book of Genesis is literally true, or do you take it as an allegory? I only ask because I rather had the impression that you were Catholic, and a literal reading is unusual from that denomination.
Topic: Why the world makes more sense if you take god out of the equation.