Surely God knows what is going to happen....but HE doesn't interfere..HE allows everything to unfold...if HE interfered, we wouldn't have free will now would we..
..and that is what Jacob was saying....not that I believe Jacob is God...but he might play the role of an angel like character...
Well, that is one Christian belief, but certainly not the only one. However, I’m not sure that Christian belief in general is that people are good and not bad. Otherwise, why did we need Jesus to come save us? Couldn’t we just have been good?