The Problem of Good

[RobbyPants]

The only reason to know He is telling the truth is because He is the only one able to testify to the truth of the statement.

That doesn't logically follow. Just because he's the only one who could verify it doesn't mean that he's telling the truth.

Ok.  I disagree that knowledge is impossible, but I certainly understand your position.  The only way for it to be proven to you that God exists is for you to be as God is and since you're not God it can never be proven to you that He exists as claimed.    

This doesn't logically follow. God could simply make himself falsifiable without modifying me at all.

He didn't create sin.

Sin is a transgression of divine law. Without divine law, there can be no sin. God created divine law and free will, and thus the ability for sin.

You can argue that we're creating it by sinning, but only because he set up the possibility for it in the first place. So far, I haven't seen any non-circular reason for sin to exist other than that "God wants it", cuz reasons. And if he set up the system and wants it to exist... then he pretty much created it. And if you still take beef with that wording, I'll change it to "he is responsible for it".

I did not say that sin's only purpose is that salvation is feely received.

What is the other purpose? So far, you've only alluded to mercy and justice, which are ways in which God interacts with sin. Basically, this is saying that God's purpose for sin is so that he can interact with it. But to what end?

Please answer the question you've ignored twice.

Which question is that? I didn't see any questions in this last post.