He chose to give intelligent creatures freedom and with that freedom the uncertainty of their decision. The uncertainty is only ours because we don't know where our choices lead us. God knows what choices we will (freely) make. Freedom ensures that those who come to God do so on their own free will. Forced "love" is no love, so unless we come to Him on our own, and with His help, we are captives of His will, and therefore not free, but rather forced.
Freedom entails the possibility to sin, but also the possibility to repent. Lucifer chose to sin, and so did Adam and Eve. So do you and so do I. But we also have the freedom to repent. Prodigal son story is an example of that. God lets you live and will take you back if you come to Him on your own and ask Him to take you back.
In your theology, God creates evil for His own purpose -- whatever that might be. Because evil exists, it must be because God wills it to exist, so He is the source and cause of evil as well as of everything else.
As for your acrobatics about the verb "believe" -- Scriptures simply say that those who believe will be saved.
Kosta, I have given you our position many times that God does not create evil. You choose to ignore me and all the other posters on my side in this thread. We all have been perfectly consistent. If you don't want to even understand our side, then you don't. I can't fix that.
As for your acrobatics about the verb "believe" -- Scriptures simply say that those who believe will be saved.
If only you "believed" that, we'd be fine on this issue! :) But you can't because I think you believe that "belief" is not enough and must be supplemented by a series of free will good deeds and free will partaking of sacraments. You have not convinced me that your position is that belief is enough to be saved.
If you are accusing me of "acrobatics", then we need to look at your statement that I was responding to:
In fact your entire theory that God doesn't allow those who believe to fall is proven wrong exactly with the fallen angels, for they surely believe in God, yet they fell.
I really thought you were kidding with this, but apparently you were not. So, this coupled with your above statement "... Scriptures simply say that those who believe will be saved" is quite a paradox, isn't it? The fallen angels did "believe", as you used the term, and yet they were damned. So, that shoots out your Bible quote. How is this reconciled?