Did God know Adam and Eve would sin? If so, why did He make them?
In truth, I did. They provided a strong illustration for the introduction and the mechanism of free will.
I understand the comfort of the idea of predestination, but the Bible overwhelmingly pronounces that each of us must make our own journey to Him and that it is up to each of us to accept His grace and go to everlasting life with Him.
John 3:16.
If God didn’t want people to go to heaven and merely wanted an army of robot slaves, then why go through the Adam and Eve charade? Why bother having people on Earth at all? He could have merely created them, popped a bunch of them into Heaven and bunged the rest into Hell. Hooray. No muss, no fuss, and a whole bunch of people created for the fires of Hell roasting merrily there.