Why did Christ sacrifice himself for our sins, when our sins are a direct result of GOD's plan?

Question

Why did Christ sacrifice himself for our sins, when our sins are a direct result of GOD's plan?

The premise of God is:

1.God is omnipotent (all-powerful)
2.God is omnipresent (everywhere)
3.God is omniscient (sees all)

So, based on this premise, "before" GOD created anything, he/she already knew that one of his angels (Lucifer) would turn against him; two of his creations (Adam/Eve) would eat the forbidden fruit, etc, etc.

So perhaps, if God created us, we were CREATED with SIN already in us, and our goal then is to reach that pure state of thought while here on this planet.

Thoughts…?!?

Answer 1

Because God is a moron, but how can he be a moron if he knows all? Thus we come to the only rational explanation of a perfect God who made a mistake. He cannot exist and thus God does not exist either that or sin does not exist. And if sin does not exist then why did Jesus die on the cross.

Answer 2

God is loving and not creating something because it would turn against Him would be like nothing creating anything at all, who to tell in His infinite wisdom He knew that sin would emerge one time or another and I we are just unfortunate that it is on us now. What we are assured of though is that sin will never again emerge in the universe, God said it in the Bible. This one is happening now is a direct consequence of sin and how it corrupts everything and everyone - all the unfallen angels and beings are watching this unfold now on earth and i bet they are saying that they are glad they didn't sin. Before sin no one knew exactly what is was or the what is does to created beings all they knew is that it is wrong but now they have the evidence. So if God wasn't loving and didn't want sin to emerge any at all He would just make us without free will or even don't create anything at all cause it might turn against Him. All who will make it to heaven will hate sin because of what we see and what it had done to us. Now we know that sin is bad and makes us selfish and greedy and subjet to death. God is a loving and creative God that is why He created us and he wouldn't be loving if he took out free will if he did he would be like Hitler.

Answer 3

It was not Gods plan that man would deny him. Before man was created Lucifer had already fell. Man was created to show Lucifer that he could not take Gods glory. The devil is now trying to steal as many souls as he can and take the glory from God, but the cross was the final battle and it is just a matter of time until the war is technicaly over and God will have all the Glory.

Answer 4

God did not "create" the sin in us...God gave us the freewill to choose between good and evil, because God is not a slave driver, imposing His will on others....Otherwise He could have created all of us as robots with no free will and able to do only good....so even though God knew that mankind will eventually fall into sin, He did not create us to sin....If Adam had chosen not to sin, then may be it would have been all different, you never know

Answer 5

God created us perfectly, in His image, and not with sin already in us. Sin is a result of free will.

God is all powerful, but in no way does that mean He should do what WE think He should do. He COULD have created a world without sin, but He CHOSE to give us free will. If we were God, then maybe we would have done it differently. But we're not God and we can't possibly know as much about creating a universe as He does.

btw, anybody recognize that Universe = Uni + Verse = One Word. "God said..."

Answer 6

We are the only ones God created with free will. Hence, although He knows what is going to happen, it is still dependent on us if we will go through the wrong or right path. And of course in most cases we will choose our own desires (which are mostly wrong in His sight!) hence, the only way out of these vicious cycle of sinning is to have His son, Jesus Christ, carry it all on His back through dying a mortal death. After that, if we sin now, or in the future, it is all wiped away because God only sees Jesus Christ on those who believe in Him...

Answer 7

To understand this issue, let's establish what is meant by sin. Sin, as used in the Bible, means "to miss the mark." If you think of an archer missing the target, then you have a good idea of what it is.
An acorn's design is to become a fully grown oak tree. In the same sense, man was created by God in His image to become more God-like. The acorn often doesn't have any control over what happens to it. Sometimes things get in the way and it does not fulfil what it was to become. In the same sense, things often get in man's way to prevent him from taking a certain path. However, these are only earthly things rather than spiritual things. We may select a path for ourselves and find that we fail because of some impediment. We may not become the star quarterback, but we may become what God wants us to become. Man has a spiritual component that an acorn lacks. Man has many physical things that prevent him from becoming what he might want, but man has God's help whenever man seeks to be what God wants him to become. We just have to ask.
Adam and Eve's sin wasn't just that they ate the apple, but that they hid from God. Just as we still sin today, it is the failure to come to God with repentance that causes the problem.
What God created was good; God is our model, as it were for perfection. We fall short of perfection but return to the path of righteousness because we seek to correct ourselves with His help. God wants each of us to be saved, which, said another way, is that we recognize that as humans we cannot do what He had in mind for us without His help. It is Satan who dissuades us from the path, trying to convince us that we are just flesh. It is God who tells us that the eternal portion of us is the spirit which is of Him.
Your question is a familiar one concerning determinism: God sees the entire world as if it were one huge timeline, if you will excuse the comparison. When Job was asking these sorts of questions, God asked him where he was when He (God) created the world. (Job 38:4) He sees things in a different way, as it were, and He sees the decisions men will make. God sees what we don't.
Although we were created with no sin, God loved us so much that He gave us the ability to make decisions on our own rather than be robots. When we make a decision that turns away from what our creator designed for us, that is sin. Satan wants us to consider that the flesh is all there is. God wants, through seeing ourselves making huge errors, to correct ourselves and come back to Him. The spirit is more than just thought. The early gnostics made this error as did others. For a better description of how the spirit works, read Ephesians 2:1-3.

Answer 8

It is not quite like that, yes God is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. He knew that Satan would sin, and that Eve would disobey Him. He wants to prove His love for us, that is why he begat Michael, and allowed Him to come to earth and be our sacrifice. That IF we believe on His name and Obey Gods law, we will have salvation.

Answer 9

He knew all this would happen. He also sent us here as a test of sorts. Earth is a testing ground, the outcome either Heaven or Hell. Yes, you must have sin before you can have salvation. He wanted to see how loyal we would be to His way, basically. He loves us so much that he sent his only son to die for us so that we could be saved through him. Check it out, its in the Bible.

Answer 10

Yes he knew that Adam and Eve would eat the fruit but god gave us free will. would you like God to control you all of the time

Answer 11

After the fall of Adam and Eve, God in his wisdom gave man free will. To allow us to choose between good and evil.