But first, I have a few questions. You say he's all-knowing, right?
He knows everything that has happened, is happening, and ever will
happen? That's a really cool power to have, I suppose. Except, if
he knows everything that has happened, is happening, and ever will
happen, then he must have known, before creating our little universe
(because, according to you, he existed before time, having no beginning),
that when he created Adam and Eve, they would sin, using the free
will he gave them. He must have known that Eve would have tempted
Adam, and that he would have been forced to banish them from the
garden, that Cain would slay Abel, that Lot would have sex with
his daughters, et cetera, et cetera. He must have known that he
would be forced to create a human incarnation of himself, and have
himself slaughtered for the sins of the people he already knew they
would commit.
Does this make much sense to you? You say that we have free will?
The ability to think and make choices for ourselves? Free will contradicts
omniscience. Because if he knew it was going to happen, if he knew
what we were going to choose, then we never really made a choice.
It was all planned from the beginning. Which means he planned for
me to write this article. He planned every single detail of everything.
Every atrocity committed by every human being on this planet was
mapped out in his head. If your god is omniscient, then we have
no free will.
God must have also known that many people would not choose to worship
him, or would have the unfortunate luck of being born in a non-christian
nation, and would thusly be sent to hell, where they would suffer
for eternity, screaming in agony in a lake of molten lava.
Knowing all of this, he created the universe anyway.