God expected man to be obedient...not perfect...so i still don't believe that he intentionally wanted to create evil with choice to be obedient or not...or that he loves satan to keep evil in the world so there can be good...if you do not believe in God...you cannot believe in that either. the choice of partaking of the fruit did not necessarily create evil persay....it merely upset the perfection that man had the choice to maintain. and anything that happened after that created all sorts of circumstances of more choice...some situations of behaving well or badly...sometimes good or evil situations or choices...which over time led up needing to have Jesus try to turn things around so man could find his way back to the kind of life God wanted us to have....not war, killing, torture, abuse, poverty, etc. etc. etc....the lack of belief...whether it is a "god" in the traditonal sense or not...to me i just a way of justifying all the bad or evil choices in the world...like we are not perfect...this is par...nothing we can do about it...to me it is very defeatist...
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