If God designs a universe where everything in it is planned, then no one else could be responsible but the designer of it all. God knows the future and designed evil for a particular good purpose. Why skip all around about this subject. God knows the future and everything else that is going to happen. In Romans, Paul suggests that God made two pots. One was to be filled and used for righteous things and the other was to be filled with wickedness and to be ultimately destroyed. Paul writes, why could anyone be found guilty if everyone is designated as one of these pots. Why would God still find fault if they were designed this way. The question does not get answered here in this scripture Romans 9-19. This whole chapter is dealing with the notion that God knows the future of all things, including evil, and that it is here for a purpose.
If everything remains perfect all of the time, there is no challenge as to the depth of God's love. God designed the presence of evil to allow us to fall by the evil influence for a time. Our falling into the way of evil might preclude the possibility of anyone returning to His family EVER! But, God did want us to know that He still loves us anyway. That was the whole of the Jesus message. God showing us that He knew that we had the propensity for failure, but that He would accept us back anyway. In a perfect world, the word forgive would never have been known. It shows more love to accept a fallen son or daughter back into the family after a crime than if nothing bad had ever happened.
Yes, it appears that God is awful by letting us suffer here, but without the suffering we would never really value the perfect place. You just don't value the strength of the best soap until it is tried out on the dirtiest of things. God's love is the soap.
If everything remains perfect all of the time, there is no challenge as to the depth of God's love. God designed the presence of evil to allow us to fall by the evil influence for a time. Our falling into the way of evil might preclude the possibility of anyone returning to His family EVER! But, God did want us to know that He still loves us anyway. That was the whole of the Jesus message. God showing us that He knew that we had the propensity for failure, but that He would accept us back anyway. In a perfect world, the word forgive would never have been known. It shows more love to accept a fallen son or daughter back into the family after a crime than if nothing bad had ever happened.
Yes, it appears that God is awful by letting us suffer here, but without the suffering we would never really value the perfect place. You just don't value the strength of the best soap until it is tried out on the dirtiest of things. God's love is the soap.
