>> Obviously god built them with defects otherwise they wouldn’t have eaten the apple. <<
He built them with free will.
>> If what pleases God is for us to be good, why would he build someone who is bad...? <<
He didn’t build us bad. He built us with free will. Some of us misuse that gift.
>> Well is it better to be sinners or robots? <<
Neither, it is better to be a saint.
>> Or maybe he created us for his entertainment? <<
Do people have children because they want to be entertained?
>> why would he build someone who is bad and insults him, and then he has to go to the trouble of punishing him? <<
God does not punish us; He allows us to experience the natural consequences of what we do. If we understand the way the world actually functions, we can avoid acting in a way that results in bad consequences, which is not to say that we will never suffer, because other people will do bad things and bad things will happen, but the difference between what happens inside to someone who does evil and someone who avoids doing evil is very great. This is why two people to whom the same thing happens may react in very different ways.
“He built them with free will.”
Why? Would you build a robot with freewill and let him run amock?
And more to the point, why did he create us in the first place? What’s in it for him?
“Some of us misuse that gift.”
Well, he knew that, so why do it? That’s like giving a gun to some hot headed punk.
“Neither, it is better to be a saint.”
OK, then build us as saints. It’s not like he couldn’t do it, right?
“Do people have children because they want to be entertained?”
Most people have children’s because they think it will provide them with joy, a sense of full financial and a connection to the future. Many do it for help in old age. God doesn’t get old.
“God does not punish us;”
Really? Eternity in hell and brimstone is not punishment?
I don’t mean to be snarky with these comments/questions, but the biggest gift whoever created us gave us was the brain and the power to reason and to question that which we find contradictory and even nonsensical, and thus make sense of the world.
And I don’t think whoever created us minds me asking these questions. What do you think?