I know what you believe about 1 Peter 1:18-20 that you believe Jesus was chosen to be sacrificed before God brought Adam and Eve into existence, I just disagree with you, because believing such a thing as that means God wanted all this sin throughout history to exist. That all the murders all the disease and sickness all deformity all the wars all the hate and greed, you are saying that was God's will for mankind because you say it was God will for Adam to be disobedient. I know you don't believe what I just wrote but by the way you believe about 1Peter 1:18-20 you are saying that it was God's will his plan for this wickedness to exist before he even brought Adam and Eve into existence.
Now you may think that a person who has a plan that includes suffering and wickedness and all the other kinds of sin that happened down through 6 thousands of years history to be a loving God, but I don't. Why would I love a person who thinks I and all my family and friends should be treated like that because that is his plan for my family and friends. Jehovah God is more loving and merciful than that.
Now the serpent proved to be the most cautious of all the wild beasts of the field that Jehovah God had made. So it began to say to the woman: “Is it really so that God said YOU must not eat from every tree of the garden?” 2 At this, the woman said to the serpent: “Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat. 3 But as for [eating] of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘YOU must not eat from it, no, YOU must not touch it that YOU do not die.’” 4 At this the serpent said to the woman: “YOU positively will not die. 5 For God knows that in the very day of YOUR eating from it YOUR eyes are bound to be opened and YOU are bound to be like God, KNOWING good and bad.”
In the scriptures above The serpent is calling God a liar and he is also saying that God is an unjust ruler because the serpent is saying Jehovah God doesn't rule honestly or justly because he withholds that which is in the best interest of mankind. The serpent is also saying that Eve and therefore mankind can rule themselves (what is good and what is evil) without God. They Adam and Eve rejected God rulership. What are the questions, " Is God a person who lies and withholds that which is necessary to mankind?, is God's rulership loving and merciful? or is it dishonest and unjust?, can mankind rule themselves in a loving and just way without God?" These are the questions that need answers, not that God answers to anyone, but God is love, he sees already that both Adam and Eve have fallen into sin, plus it's very possible that the Angles are watching this situation, if God destroys all three which he can do but will it satisfy Gods intelligent creatures curious minds or may they wonder if the serpent was right. Time would be needed to answer these questions, what has 6000 years history proven. That God is a person who keeps his promises and a person who rules his creation lovingly and justly, while mankind has dominanted man to his injury and proven that mankind doesn't know how to rule himself lovingly or justly.
Well, what you are saying then, if you are honest with yourself, is that even though Scripture says it is this way, I will not believe it because in my view of God, it makes God look bad.
If God did not plan for this wickedness in the world to exist, then who did? If all this was not part of His plan, then not only is He not omniscient, but neither is He omnipotent. Because He not only didn't forsee it, but He could do nothing to stop it. Do you believe that?
Christ was ordained to be the Sacrifice before the foundation of the world. That means that God knew all about sin and misery and suffering that was going to result due to the fall of Adam. Why plant the tree of knowledge of good and evil? Why give a commandment not to eat of it? God has chosen suffering as a way to mature His people. We may not like it, but He has chosen it. Jesus Christ learned obedience by the things in which He suffered. (Heb. 5:8) Isn't that something! The Son learned something He had not known before. Obedience through suffering.
Whether you want to love God or not is up to you. If your love of God is dependent on the way you want God to be and not the way it is, then you are not loving God anyway. You are just loving the way you want God to be. Scripture teaches, and it has been my experience, that it is not me that loves God. It is God that loves me. If you know God loves you, you will naturally love God.
Yes, the serpent, the devil, deceived Eve. We have established that. But don't mix Eves deception with Adams motive. And that is what you are doing. Adam was not deceived. And Adam did not eat to rebel against God. He ate because he didn't want to lose Eve. Nevertheless, he ate, and sinned and the fall occurred.
Do you hear yourself. You are complaining about God, if He knew and planned all this, how terrible He would be. But then you say all this is there to answer some questions that some maybe asking. What is the difference? You don't see a terrible God in doing that, yet He is terrible in that He planned it. The loving God you want, doesn't have to answer these questions. He just destroys Adam and Eve, who you say are traitors anyway, and make another man and woman. Then no suffering, no wickedness, etc. etc.
All of this does answer questions, because all is the plan of God.
Stranger