I have a question that No one can seem to answer for me and its bothering me.... " If God knew that Adam would sin....why did he create him? Doesnt it seem like it would have saved a lot of trouble to just not make him?" and also, if he knew lucifer would rebel... why did he make him? Can anyone answer?
I struggled with this a long time until God finally gave me peace and a glimpse of understanding into it I believe. It seems like God could have created adam without sin, without free will, and adam along with the rest of mankind, would have never known the difference. We could all be robots programmed to worship God and none of us would ever know any different. We would be living in a perfect world free of sin and corruption.
So why create satan and give us free will? Simple. Love. I don't have kids myself, but I can try to put myself into a parents role and making decisions for a child. Is it better to shelter a child from everything or to show them all their options? Which one shows more love? How can we understand a perfect love from God through our tainted view of human love?
God knew that he could make us all lack free will and follow him, with no one falling away. In his infinite, beyond understanding, perfect love though, he wanted us to have a choice. He knew we would not all choose him, but he wanted those who did worship him to choose to do so, not do it because it was the way he made them.
To give us this choice, we had to have a choice to begin with. Without God creating lucifer, and thereby evil, we wouldn't know what "good" was, with no opposite to compare it to. So God created a choice for us, knowing that the majority would NOT choose him, but giving everyone the same chance to do so. That took a long time for me to wrap my mind around, but once I did, it gave me a glimpse into the true bottomless, never ending, perfect love of God. I know some people will think that shows a side of God that is not love, but I don't view it that way.
He loved us SO MUCH that he HAD to give us a choice. To let each one of us decide for ourselves, he had to present us with a choice. I can't understand all of it, it is a supernatural perspective that I try to view through a natural mind, but God can reveal it to us through his Word and Spirit.
That's the best way I can put it. We have a choice because of a love that we cannot comprehend or grasp with our human mind. Human nature would tell us that it doesn't make sense, to just make us all with no choice, no one gets hurt that way, but God's love IS the answer.