Fifth, the first sin for Adam and for the individual is a qualitative leap. It is a leap out of freedom into sinfulness. When sin is posited in the particular individual by the qualitative leap, the difference between good and evil is also posited. We have said what we again repeat, that sin presupposes itself, just as freedom presupposes itself, and sin cannot be explained by anything antecedent to it, anymore than can freedom. To speak of good and evil as the objects of freedom finitizes both freedom and the concepts of good and evil.
Freedom is infinite and arises out of nothing.
Kierkegaard does not wish to convey the idea that freedom or sin is arbitrary. Sin is not posited by necessity in the act of creation. It could not be a tendency of man, since man was created in sinlessness and in freedom. However, freedom is not arbitrary. Though Adam had a choice between good and evil, it was never a dispassionate choice, nor did deity present two equally viable alternatives to him.