If God knew human beings would sin, why did He create us?
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Finding answers to the most daunting questions confronting Christians today is critical. It is said, “Take food from man, and he will gobble poison.” In this article, I said that if the Church fails to answer Christians’ questions rightly, we can be sure that the vacuum created by ignorance will be filled with erroneous views and dangerous practices.
The Omniscience of God
The Bible tells us that God is omniscient; thus, He has unlimited knowledge. Isaiah 46:10 (NIV) says, “I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come…” One of the questions I often get about the omniscience of God is that if God knew human beings would sin and face His judgement, why did He create us anyway?
As trivial as this may sound, it is a legitimate question that deserves complete attention. Many of us, consciously or unconsciously, may have pondered over this at some point in our lives. Come with me as I attempt to answer this question.
Before God made us, we were first a thought in His mind. Genesis 1:26 assets
Even before God thought of creating Adam and Eve, He knew they would disobey Him and fall short of the glory of God. As such, God made provision for this inevitable fall. Revelation 13:8 talks about “…the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world”. God thus made a provision for the antidote of sin even before He made humankind.
God's Love dictates His Actions
It is essential to understand that everything God does is motivated by love. Love is God’s nature, not merely His attribute. 1 John 4:8 says, “God is love.” After Adam and Eve disobeyed God, the Scriptures say God sacked them from the Garden of Eden and instructed the Cherubim, God’s special angels, to guide the Garden with a flaming sword. At a glance, this seems like a hash treatment meted out to people God purports to love. But upon further reflection, one would notice God did that because He loved them.
Genesis 3:22 reads, “And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” After eating from the Tree of Knowledge of good and Evil, Adam and Eve had sinned against God. Meanwhile, God had said, “the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” [1] Therefore, the moment they ate from the Tree, they died spiritually.
Moreover, God knew that if they were allowed to eat from the Tree of Life, which was close to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil since both trees were in the middle of the garden, they would live perpetually in their sins and that would defeat the redemption plan He had made for humanity even before He laid the foundation of the world.
God's redemptive promise
Genesis 3:15 contains the redemptive promise to restore humanity to its right standing with God. God said, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.” This divine redemptive promise was activated in Genesis 12 when God called Abraham to relocate from his father’s house to a place He would show him. Through Abraham, Jesus Christ was born, who died and saved humanity. Therefore, a way back to God is through Christ.
God's love afirmed
The love of God is affirmed in John 3:14-17
Conclusion
To conclude, God, being omniscient, knew that humanity would sin. Therefore, He made a provision for our redemption. The onus is, however, on us to accept or reject the redemption that He has given us.
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References
[1] Genesis 2:17
[2] Genesis 3:15 (KJV)
Comments:
samueldaniels
Apostle Paul asked a similar but rhetorical question in Romans 6:1-2 “…Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” Again, Proverb 28:13 reads, “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” Therefore, as Christians, we should not take God’s mercies for granted. When the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sins, we must repent, confess, and ask the Lord to help us overcome them.
Ruby Nana Yaa Agoba
As Christians, do we risk taking God’s mercies for granted when we sin unintentionally, despite our awareness of the nature of our sin ?