Did God Know That Adam and Eve Would Sin?
This is an interesting question and one many people ask. But if that was the case, why were Adam and Eve cast out of the Garden of Eden as sinners? Would it be just or loving to condemn a person for doing something that he planned for them to do?’ (1) ‘Jehovah is a God of love. (1 John 4:8) (2) All his ways are just. (Ps. 37:28; Deut. 32:4) (3) It was not God’s will for Adam to sin; he warned Adam against it. (Gen.2:17)’ (4) God did allow Adam, as he does us, the freedom to choose what he would do. Perfection did not rule out the exercise of free will to disobey. Adam chose to rebel against God, despite the warning that death would result. By asserting their independence, Adam and Eve irreparably damaged their relationship with Jehovah and inflicted sin’s imprint upon their organism, right to its genetic foundations. True, they lived for hundreds of years, but they began to die “in the day” of their sin, as a branch severed from a tree would. (Genesis 5:5) Moreover, for the first time,
