***Are you now saying God was wrong when the scripture says: “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.”***
God did create all things good, as in “according to his purpose” but he also put a little tree in the garden and told Adam not to eat of it. That’s where things went downhill :>) The tree was still good, just not good for Adam to eat. The action, the sin, was in disobeying God’s direct command to Adam. Even though Eve was the one decieved by the serpent, Adam’s sin was not obeying God.
Seeing that God didn’t HAVE to put that tree there, why do you think he did? I think that he did because all of this was according to his purpose. He knew that Adam would disobey, he knew that man would fall. It was all according to his purpose, his will. Before the creation of the earth, God had a plan that his Son would save the elect. Before any sin happened, he had a plan.
That would be one theory.
He knew that Adam would disobey, he knew that man would fall.
That would be another.
It was all according to his purpose, his will.
That would be the first one again.
Before the creation of the earth, God had a plan that his Son would save the elect. Before any sin happened, he had a plan.
That would be a third theory, somewhere in between the first two.
To set a limit to man's freedom lest he believe he knows and has a right to everyting and believes he is just like 'god.'