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Answer:
No, God couldn’t be God without being all-knowing (omniscient) and all-powerful (omnipotent). If he had such limitations, he would be vulnerable to negative impact by someone or something greater than himself. In other words, he wouldn’t be eternal God, but someone created and limited, no matter how lofty his nature otherwise.
So as the eternal Son of God who became man, Jesus Christ not only didn’t sin, he couldn’t have sinned. Again, if he were vulnerable to sin, he would not have been God. Consequently, we see that the perfection of freedom is being impervious to—including being free from committing—sin, something the saints in heaven enjoy.
Mere human persons on earth, on the other hand, do not yet have such perfections, especially given our fallen nature. So while we are created without the need to hate, we can freely choose to hate. And if God prevented us from hating, he would not be truly loving us. For love coerced is not love at all.
And so it was with our first parents (CCC 374ff; 390.) God respected the free will of Adam and Eve. Yet, God also doesn’t let sin and death have the last word either, sending his only begotten Son to become man and redeem us all through his one Sacrifice of Calvary. So he gives us plenty of opportunities to repent and walk with him throughout our lives and accept his gift of salvation and persevere in it unto heaven.