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This is an important question to ask, as long as we ask it with no assumptions – why did God create a situation where man could disobey Him? Why did He create anything at all?

Everything was created to ultimately serve and please God, and we were created with that purpose as well. He gave us the ability to choose to disobey Him, and this was also given to us to serve God’s purposes. Adam and Eve knew God and walk with Him in the garden where He had placed them. They could eat from any other tree in the garden. They chose in a selfish moment to do the one thing God told them not to do (Gen 2:15-17). Thus, Sin was brought into the world.

Adam and Eve did not trust God, even though He had created them. They did not treasure their relationship with Him. They thought they could do better than He. We are similiar in many ways. Do we see our proper position to God?

In the bible, Job 15:7-16 records God speaking to Job to put him in his proper place: “Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills? Do you listen in on God’s council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom? What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have? The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father. Are God’s consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you? Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash, so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?”

We must see God for who he really is. We must trust God in what he says, in His plans and promises. God is good and is sovereign over all things, thus he has chosen things for his divine purposes and for his own glory(Romans 7:7-12, Romans 8:28-29, Romans 9:21, Romans 16:25-27, 1 Thessalonians 1:3-4, 2 Timothy 2:20). It’s really amazing what God has done to bring us back to Him.

While it seems that we would be a lot better off if God could have stepped in and prevented Adam and Eve from eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, it sets up a relationship dynamic He did not intend to have with us. We are made in God’s image, capable of responsibility and choice, to reflect Him. We were not made to be robots or sustained in an infant state where we do not understand the consequence of our decisions. Read Full Answer.

Satan was created as Lucifer, an angelic being of the highest order, before he fell into sin (see Ezekiel 28:11-15). After he fell, he apparently still possessed great powers. In the book of Job, we find that he could cause fire to fall from the sky (Job 1:16), control the wind (Job 1:19) and even inflict boils on a person (Job 2:7). On top of this, he had authority on earth since it was delivered to him (Luke 4:6) presumably by Adam when he listened to the serpent’s lie in the garden of Eden. However, all these changed when Jesus came to earth, died on the cross and rose again. He regained the authority Adam lost to Satan (Matthew 28:18) and now gives us power over Satan and his demons (Mark 16:17). Read Full Answer.

Just as God did not “create” good, He did not “create” evil. God is the definition of good and the rejection of God or His personality is by definition evil. While it is a concept and not a created thing, evil is real and does exist. Evil exists as a result of the ability to accept or reject God. Read Full Answer.

The Bible tells us that God created a world without sin, death or suffering. Adam’s chose to sin against God and in so doing, brought about the curse of sin on the world. Jesus came to die on the cross to undo the works of sin. Death and suffering is seen as an intruder into the good world that God had Read Full Answer.

Proverbs 16:4 – The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

But if God has purposed that there will be suffering and evil in this world, doesn’t that mean that God is evil? No. God is good even if he wills that his creation do wicked things and suffer. Read Full Answer.

Prior to eating of The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God had already commanded Adam not to eat of the fruit. Adam knew what God was like, and what God was not. Since whatever is not of God is by definition, evil, Adam already knew good and evil in a cognitive sense. For Adam to be Read Full Answer.

Let us start by reading a number of bible passages:

1 Samuel 15:23  For rebellion is as the sin of divination/witchcraft, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.” Read Full Answer.

Yes, witches do exist. The Scriptures tell us so.

“When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone Read Full Answer.