Why did god make us such sinful creatures? God is all-powerful and all-knowing, right?

Question

Why did god give us the ability to do things god call sinful? Why, then, does god punish us for doing exactly what god created us to do?

Notice the all-knowing and all-powerful part in the question. Freewill is not an answer, because that defeats the claim that god is all-knowing and all-powerful.

All-knowing and all-powerful, it knows when your going to die and how, it decides how you will behave through life. I love how you christians make up nonsense and answer it with even more nonsense

Answer 1

If I say that man created God for his own convenience then would that answer your question. As we have our own failures and foibles so we attribute the same to the God we have invented in the same physical form as us.

Answer 2

God didn't make us sinful creatures. You aren't taking responsibility for your actions here, Sparky. You have the ability to choose NOT to do things which are wrong. Some people love to reject the free will aspect and instead blame God. You likely blame others in your life for any misfortune that occurs. You may find a whole new world of possibilities out there if you'll start taking responsibility for your own actions and make conscious decisions to do the right thing.

Being "all knowing and all powerful" has nothing whatsoever to do with free will. He gave it to you and you are using it, but don't want to take responsibility. "It's God's fault". Now doesn't that sound silly?

Answer 3

I, too, have to say freewill. God is happier when we choose to love him. He wants us to follow his law because it's for the better of us. But God didn't make us sinners. He created the perfect man and woman, Adam and Eve. Like I just said, they were perfect and had free will. They got their sin from temptations by satan. Yeah, you can argue about why God created satan. Once satan was perfect too but because of pride of being so "perfect" he became a sinner. Well, that's the best answer I can give. -.- God bless ya

Answer 4

God created us to do good works, not sin:
"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." (Eph 2:10)

He created Adam and Eve perfect and without sin. And he provided them with everything they needed.

God gave us desires, just as he has desires. We were created mortal because we need to learn to control those desires and not allow them to lead us into sin -- that is, were the desires control us, as Satan does.

And you are in error as to the myth about God being "all knowing." God does not know the future, or everything we will ever do. Read and STUDY the Word of God, and you will see that throughout the Bible, God TESTS people to see what they will do. For example, read about Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22:1...), and the Sabbath test of the people of Israel (Ex 16:...4...). And there are others.

God knows all that there is to know; and he knows what we are likely to do. But he does not know the future.

Answer 5

I don't understand why Free Will is not the answer. Just because God is all-knowing and all-powerful does not mean that he did not choose to provide man with a Free Will (knowing that it can be used for good or for bad).

Personally, I'm not sinful, but I'm sure glad that I have the powers over my own actions.

Answer 6

First, he created us to have a relationship with him, not just to sin. But there had to be sin for us to have a relationship. It had to be that way. God wants us to have a relationship with him. That relationship is called "fellowship", and you can't have real fellowship with someone unless they genuinely want to. It wouldn't be a true relationship if, say, you tried to be friends with a computer; the computer just does whatever you tell it to do, it doesn't have a real choice of whether to stay with you or go somewhere else, so its friendship really means nothing. So, in order for God to have true fellowship with His creations, there had to be something standing between humans and God, so that only people who genuinely wanted God in their lives had a relationship with Him. That's why there had to be sin, and all of us had to be sinners, so that we could opt to have fellowship with God. He was powerful enough to stop us, but He knew it had to be that way. And, there also has to be a consequence for that sin, which was paid for by Christ. Either you believe Jesus died for your sins in your place, or you die for them yourself.
So yes, free will is an answer. Yes, God knew we would sin. And yes, He did have the power to stop us. But He also knew that the only way He could have companionship with us is by our own free will.

Answer 7

God did not create us to sin. He created us with loose will. this is not His fault if we pick to do stupid issues. He informed us properly in strengthen what no longer to do and yet we did it besides. Why do human beings have children actually to punish them at the same time as they do incorrect? They understand their children will do incorrect, really? God did not understand we may do incorrect, because we had the alternative and He placed His faith in us that we may do the right issues. the reason our father and mom understand we are going to do some thing incorrect is because it is how a ways the international has fallen for the reason that God created it. God created us to love and to receive His love. He does love us each of the time, even those who're endlessly misplaced. So, we do fulfil the objective for which we were created. And yet, God supplies us so a lot more desirable objective too. If we reject God's love, he will keep attempting to provide it at the same time as we are on earth. after we die, the time for picking is over. God reaches out actively to human beings in the time of their lives, consisting of to those those who die tragically at, say, the age of twenty. God is continually there. also, if God made us to sin, then why did He come to earth so as that we, His creation, ought to conquer Him, spit on Him, insult Him, reject Him, lie about Him, placed a crown of thorns on His head, commonly torture Him and then crucify Him? That became no relaxing for Him in any respect. Why would He create us to sin only so as that He ought to wade through so really? He knew precisely what terror awaited Him. He became frightened of the discomfort. He also knew even with the truth that that He loved us and needed to educate it to us once back.

Answer 8

Faulty logic. Just because God knows everything doesn't mean that we don't have free will. God doesn't force us to do anything and neither does he cause us to do his will by designing the universe so that things happen to make us do it. We choose to sin and the consequences follow, whether we repent and obey him or deny and reject him. God knows from the beginning of time who will believe and obey him. Bottom line.

Answer 9

All powerful and all knowing does not equal (as Satan would have you believe) Tyrant. It would be tyrannical of God if He made us to do His will. He is not a tyrant (Satan is), God loves us, and He wants us to love Him of our own free wills. Nothing else is acceptable to Him. God did not make Adam and Eve sinful (another lie of satan's), God made them perfect in every way. It was Satan that persuaded Eve to doubt God, and who led her into rebellion. And no, God did no create Lucifer sinful either. Lucifer became jealous of Michael (Jesus) and that is what led him into rebellion against God. None of this is the fault of God, the fault lies squarely upon the shoulders of Satan, and him alone.

Answer 10

Sorry but Freewill is the answer. God didnt create robots. We're not animals that operate predictably on Instinct. We have Free will. But he knew that we were going to be like this. Thats why he gave us an instruction manual called The Holy Bible. Read it because there will be a test.

Answer 11

TEST. Apparently evil can spring up among the good. this is what happened with Satan.

So we get the gift of life. We choose to be with God, or embrace darkness and turn from God.

Ultimately it will be our existence with God for eternity that validates our turning to good from sin of our own free will.