Does God punish us for sins He knew we would committ?

Question

When God put the tree of knowledge and the tree of life in the garden of Eden, didn't God KNOW that A&E would do it?

If God knew it would happen, why did he punish A&E and everybody after them?

And if God knows that there is going to be a great falling away, as the Bible says, does that mean that God is responsible for it? Does God control everything? If he knew I would not be able to find reasonable evidence or a significant compelling in my spirit to believe the Bible, even before I was born, How can I be judged for that?

I would like to believe the Bible, but I have absolutely no compelling reason to, aside from emotionalism, or an extremely faulty and cumbersome apologetics!

God foreknew, did He not? Before God created the first being, he knew that some of them would rebel. God put within the creature the seed of rebellion.

Where did this evil come from?

1. “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” Isaiah 45:7

2. “Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?” Amos 3:6

3. “Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?” Lamentations 3:38

Why again, would one become a Christian?

Answer 1

^The word of God says that the man is sinful from his birth^

Jesus love you
He was the perfect one.

Answer 2

Why would God knowing that Adam would sin and He allowed it to happen foreseeing all the ugly consequences and then to unravel everything He has to send His Son to die on the cross for us and to suffer all judgements by God himself of the sins of all mankind is a mystery that we have to live with this side of heaven We can only find the answer in heaven when we see God. To allow man to exercise his free will God has to give man the perception of knowledge and the exercise of choice through the opposites: good vs evil, light vs darkness, life vs death, love vs hate, and so on. We deserve punishment for the sins that we commit but God has made an easy way for us to obtain total and absolute forgiveness of sins and eternal life by just believing in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. God has established this way to redeem and to restore all things (not just man but all His other creation) and we have to believe that God has a good reason to allow things to happen the way it is.

Answer 3

Have you ever watched minority report? Where people have the ability to see the future crime? The future police punished the future criminal, even before they commit the crime. God knew that A&E will commit the crime, yet He didn't punish them at that time, did He?

Would you like God to punish you before you even commit anything? That would make Him not God, because He takes away what He gives to you, a free will. You are free to choose what you want to do, say, or even believe. He knows everything, yet you are free to choose.

Would God punish us for sins He knew we would commit? Of course He would. Why? Because it was us who chose to sin. Even if He did try to prevent you from sinning, will you listen? Remember, it's your choice. He does not want to force you, because it means taking away your freedom.

God did not create evil. Rather, evil emerged from the absence of God. Just as darkness is what we termed as the absence of light (a quotation from Albert Einstein).

Answer 4

just because god knew it, it doesn't mean he chose it. we are free will agents. evil is a biproduct of free will, where is love without freewill.
to choose to care about something that has given you the choice to do is real love. if a robot was self aware it cannot love you if you have programmed it to do so and not given it the choice to reject you. thats just programmed behaviour. i am positive that when god chose to create us he made us with free will knowing the biproduct was going to be evil creating us within the boundaries of a universe that is based on logic. the foreseeing of the future is because god stands outside of our linear timespace continuum and this is because he stands outside the boundaries of the universe. look past the emotionalism and see the logic. the arguement for god is full of it. punishment is abcense from the creator. and jesus is the one who can rejoin us with the creator. i hope i have helped. god bless

Answer 5

Sin is not in the plan of God. e.g. When you have an expressway, its sole purpose is to convey commuters. Now when a bomb destroys part of that expressway, does it mean that the bomb was included in the original plan of the expressway? Sin was merely a disruption in the plan of God. I know you will ask about the omniscience of God, His all-knowing. But His omniscience is solely in line with His purpose. Gods purpose is eternal and only good is eternal. Evil has an end

Answer 6

There's a simple explanation for this. It's a children's story used to explain the flat world that the sun revolved around.

Seriously, the people were wrong about so much in there time of age, what makes people think they hit the creation of the universe and life smack in the nose?

Answer 7

God gave adam and eve free will, which means he does NOT controll what they do, and does not know what they will do.. for the most part he knoews what we do, just not IF we will so something, but he does forgive our sins when we ask to be forgiven in his grace. and god did put rebellion in to man when he first created him. if you read further into the bible lucifer was a fallen angel that god expelled from heaven and into the abyss where lucifers name became satan and he was the one that put evil into man

Answer 8

its simple god does not exist the bible is a set of books written by men.
but yes if god did exist and the bible was true - then yes god is not a very nice thing. he is also responsible for millions of people killed in wars - I know of very few wars where god was not on both sides saying it was the write thing to kill the enamy
bush says god told him it was the write thing to invade iraq and the sadam said god was on his side. the problems in Ireland boil down to protestants and christens - both believing god is on there side.

Answer 9

If you had a child an knew something was dangerous for them you would try to stop them but eventually if they do that thing which they have been warned about (like touching a hot stove) they will get burned. I do not think God wants to punish us but sometimes we leave Him no choice

Answer 10

God Knows Everything!!!!!!
TRUE!!!!
God gave humans Free Will; to choose b/w Good&Evil...
Now, God wants Us to use the wonderful Brain&Gray matter which He has given us to use;to make descretion and pick what we want to..


Evil comes from within...We need JESUS CHRIST to overcome this Evil...

GOD BLESS.

Answer 11

ask the children they are susceptible to this stuff
Evil is born of ignorance and ill feelings not knowledge and good feeling or even a good heart you probably have guessed I have an adult view of this stuff and no longer support fantasy gods angels or even goblins and boogiemen.