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If God is all-knowing and all-loving, then why would he create mankind with free will and punish us for it?
What is the alternative?
A perfectly righteous and just God creates man.
Man disobeys God.
God pats man on the head, smiles, and says: oh you rascal.
That is not a God who loves justice.
Disobedience carries a price.
Remember that God is raising children
We pray to the "Father."
If your child disobeys you, he must disciplined.
If you spare the rod, eventually, you will have a wild donkey on your hands.
Furthermore, the story of the garden is not about nominal disobedience.
This was no small sin.
This was no oopsie.
God made it very clear that the penalty would be severe.
Man, therefore, chose to change his very makeup.
His very perspective was transformed.
He now knew evil only in a way God's enemy, the adversary, knew it.
He changed who HE WAS.
Imagine you raise your son, love him, feed him, give him everything, and one day, he decides to change his last name.
Not just that.
But do it on the urging of your sworn enemy.
He chooses not to see things the way you do anymore.
He chooses not to represent the family anymore.
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Surely he knew what would happen - why create us knowing we would screw up,
You'd rather not exist, than serve God?
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then punish the entire human race for the sin of two people?
For all have sinned, and fallen short of the Glory of God.
And yeah, I could go on and on here, but I believe 100%, as a former backslider myself, that nobody rejects God on the basis of these kinds of arguments, anyway.
Usually it's a girlfriend or boyfriend arriving on the scene, and we want to have sex, or we start to be lured in by the party-lifestyle of friends and peers, and we start the self-justification, the "well, it's probably all bologna anyway because of this and that and this."
So I won't really bother.
I'll just pray for ya, pal.