Why did God create man when he knew man would sin?

Answer 1

God told Adam and Eve: "Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth." "And Jehovah God also laid this command upon the man: 'From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.'" (Gen. 1:28; 2:16, 17)

This command to "fill the earth," was a happy assignment that they could find delight in, have a wonderful future.

If you are a parent, would you have your children undertake a project, that they would enjoy, knowing that they were doomed to failure? Would you give them instruction, and warn them of consequences of going contrary of your instructions, while knowing that you had planned from the start that they would not succeed? This is not reasonable to believe that God would do something like this. The Bible tells us that he is loving and righteous.

Consider what Matthew 7:11 says: "If you, although being wicked [or, "bad as you are," NE], know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more so will your Father who is in the heavens give good things to those asking him?"

If God foreordained Adam's sin and the resulting misery in the world that resulted from that sin, it would mean that by creating Adam, God deliberately had a share in causing all of the problems and wickedness. He would be the original cause of wars, crime, injustice, oppression, disease, and all the other bad things we see around us today. However, the Bible tells us at Psalms 5:4 that, "You are not a God taking delight in wickedness." In fact, Psalms 11:5 says, " Anyone loving violence His soul certainly hates." We read that, "God . . . cannot lie." (Titus 1:2) "From oppression and from violence he [the One designated by God as Messianic King] will redeem their soul, and their blood will be precious in his eyes." (Ps. 72:14) "God is love." (1 John 4:8) "He is a lover of righteousness and justice."-Ps. 33:5. All these Bible verses and more give us insight as to God's personality and show us that he could never be a party to such wickedness we see in the world.

It would be reasonable to conclude then that Jehovah made a choice not to foresee what Adam-and Eve-would do, even though He could have.

Obviously, Jehovah can foresee the future, but sometimes He chooses not to do so, just like a person with a television set can choose whether to watch a program or not. Furthermore, it is most reasonable to conclude that He, being a God of love, would not predetermine the rebellion in the garden of Eden, with all the misery that it has caused. (Matthew 7:11; 1 John 4:8) Jehovah's exercise of foreknowledge is selective. He chooses when and how to use that ability.Compare Genesis 22:12; 18:20, 21.

Furthermore, He allows humans the freewill to decide whether to listen to Him and receive blessings or not. He does not force His will apon us. Several scriptures show that we have a choice, such as: Revealtion 22:17: "Let anyone hearing say: 'Come!' And let anyone thirsting come; let anyone thatwishes take life's water free." Also, Romans 2:4, 5: "Do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long-suffering, because you do not know that the kindly quality of God is trying to lead you to repentance? But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and of the revealing of God's righteous judgment." Zephaniah 2:3: "Seek Jehovah, all you meek ones of the earth . . . Seek righteousness, seek meekness. Probably you may be concealed in the day of Jehovah's anger."

Whether we obey GOD or not is left up to us as it was Adam and Eve. Jehovah tells us what is right and wrong, and warns us of the consequences if we disobey. We, like our first parents are free moral agents. The option is set before us to decide. It is up to us to make the right choices and reap the benefits or disobey and pay the penalty.

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Because without "Sin", there will be nothing to forgive or save from, thus, there won't be a need for a God.

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God was one step ahead of man's sin. He had a plan to restore man to Himself. The fact that so few choose this path is no fault of God, as if He made man sin. The alternative would be a race of robots. God wanted people to love and worship Him freely. Those who are programmed to act in a certain way cannot make a choice and so cannot know love.

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Man created God in his image : intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

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As I understand it, God of course new that Adam and Eve were going to sin. But his creation had and still has a purpose. God gave all of us free will, the reason for that is because like some have already mentioned, God created everything for himself, he desired a creation which could truly love him. Now from a philosophical standpoint, true love must exist with the option to hate, God could not have created beings that just loved him, with no ability to choose not to love him, otherwise that would have been a programmed love, and not true love which comes by a choice. Think of it this way, I don't know if you do or don't have any children, but lets say for this example that you don't have children. Now lets say that somehow, before you had any children you were able to obtain knowledge that if you went ahead with having those children, at some point in their lives they were going to hate you, denounce you as their parent and abandon you. Would you still go ahead with having children if you knew that would happen? I know I would, even though I do not have any children, I can say that I plan to have children and although they technically don't exist at the moment I do love them, and I would not hesitate to bring them into this world. It was the same with God. He loved all of us before he created us, yet he knew that we would denounce him and abandon him as our creator. But God was the first one to have true love, and so he made the choice to create us, not because things would work out great, but because he loved us as a parent loves their children. So in the end, sin and evil are actually some of the greatest evidences of God's love, in that he created us in spite of who we would become, the same way a parent has children in spite of all the possibilities of that child's future.

Jewish Answer

When the Torah states that HaShem created man in His own image, this refers to humans having freewill. Without being able to do bad, freewill would be pointless. Additionally, it is only through making mistakes then correcting those mistakes that an individual can grow and become closer to HaShem.