1. So when God created man with free will, did he undo his former perfection or was his creation still perfect after the creation of man?
2. According to the story, man did not choose to be moral beings, which must mean that either God's creation was not perfect or it was exactly as he wanted it?
Thank you for this post. it is very deep in thought.
Not a lot of people think this way, and you somehow have a gift to explain exaclty what you mean.
I wish I have enough time to answer everyone's response, but I can only go through and on face value decide on who to answer.
Then I dont even get time enough to go through all the posts.
But yours is the ultimate question which I also had a problem with concerning the philosophical question of, ...
"If God created Satan, Sin, Evil, death and pain, is he not Evil Himself ?
If He did not create these bad things, is He realy Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent?"
Well, I can only give you my understanding of who God is. I will tell ou what my interperetation is about this, but heavilly supported by what I found in the Bible.
1. God is all knowing, and obviously should have known that Evil will enter in His creation.
*This point is strengtened by the fact that Jesus was very clear that His execution was forseen "before the foundation of the Earth."
2. Death entered into God's creation and was not "Created" by God.
* I understand it as such that God is life and light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
*Death is the absence of Life, which renders that death is the abscence of God.
3. If there is a place in the creation where people will be kept away from God, does it mean He is not Omnipresent?
*I had a problem with "how is it possible that people can be dead, kept in hell, but God is not in Hell." (I think I was perhaps the first to think about it, hopefully so)
4. Then the creation of free will where God made Man to choose to sin obviously shows that He knew Man will sin, Satan will seduce, death and pain will appear.
Now my conclusion.
God did create everything.
But he also gave free choice to what he created.
But it must be understood that God created everything to be immortal, from the ennergy, matter and life Nothing will just dissappear.
Then I understood the principle of Adam and Eve created in God's immage. They were also created immortal. They were covered in a bright light as God wears light as clothing, and they did not know they were naked.
God told them not to eat a certain fruit (because if they do they will die which renders that they were immortal), but they allowed to be deceived by evil, which God also created good without sin, but with free will.
When Adam and eve sinned, they lost their immortality, and started to age.
In other words, they were dying. You and I are nothing more than living corpses that deteriorates as time passes, untill such time as our bodies totally fail.
Now, before Adam and Eve lost their immortal bodies, they were able to be in the presence of God with no ill effects. But thereafter No Human could be in the presence of the glorious life giving body of God. They will simply just "burn out" so to speak due to this corrupted mortalbody we live in.
God then gave Adam and Eve clothing from skin by slaughtering animals. This blood was the covering of Adam and Eve from destruction in the presence of God. for some reason, blood covers our sinfull nature, and protects our mortal bodies from "burning out" in Gods' presence.
therefore, we all needed blood offerings to cover our sinfull bodies, and Jesus was the ultimate blood sacrifice that covered the world's sin from the face of God, thereby ending the need for eternal sacrifices.
OK, so what does this all have to do with your question.
This is the one side of the story we should understand about "HOW" God created us humans, and how we were corrupted in our existance, and how it affects God's relation with us.
The other side of the story is made up of one simple answer to a simple question.
"Why did God create us?"
The answer is: "He was alone and wanted something to be his friend and to love that someone."
I think about it as such.
God wanted to have companionship, and decided to create the best of friends He could possibly make.
He decided to create a free thinking free willed creature, that could decide for themself if they want to be His friend!
This Omniscent God knew that giving free will, will result in rebellion, evil, death, but He also knew that out of the masses of souls He created, there will be those who will love him back.
just for this reason, He decided that it was worth His while to make us.
He also knew that there will be terrible people, who will breech all moral rules written in our conscience, and He knew they will forever be removed from His presence, but will for eternity feel the "burning" of their corrupted spirits by His omnipresence.
Now, is this rightious God, who gave humans a chance of life, realy bad because there are people who doomed themself?
All I can see is this God who eventually decided it worth while to gain a friend, and to judge the ones who had no regard for any life, had the right to do as He chose.
We have the right to choose too.
And yes, God did not create evil, but allowed free choice, to ensure that who loves him does so out of free will.
Just think what a foolish god He would have been if He forced us all to love Him.
Little robots running around him with no mind at all.
Therefore, The above actually demonstrates the Omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence of YHWH.
Anyway, thats how I got it.
And again, thank you for your thoughts and thinking.