Many say that God is unbending and that death is the arbitrary price He placed on rebellion or sin. Yet death is a result not a choice. If nothing else has been learned over the last 6000 years it should be this. A government that has its bases in love of self is self destructive and leads inherently to death. It is not an arbitrary decision of God s, it is the nature of sin.
Sin causes death.
He had several objectives that needed to be met. First, He had to keep sin from spreading and destroying all of His creation. He had to quarantine it here just as we quarantine disease to keep it from spreading. Secondly He had to offer a cure for those who found themselves infected. His nature would accept nothing less.