- If God is not offended by our sin, nor angered by our sin, is it possible he's also not concerned about our sin?
- Why would sin be bad for us?
- Does it follow that anything that is bad for us is therefore a sin?
- What exactly is sin?
- If the Bible is not to be believed, how do we know what things are sins and what things are not?
I disagree with your assessment that God made sin. That's a contradiction. How can bad come from a perfect good? God created Satan, to be sure, but God did not mandate that Satan exercise his free will to oppose God. Here we fall into the "God permits, but does not cause bad things to happen" argument.
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For the record, I believe the definition of sin is simply "disobeying God's will." What is God's will? That we be perfectly obedient to him. Why would a creature possessing free will volunteer that free will back to God? Because if God is indeed perfectly good and perfectly holy and perfectly loving, then being obedient to him will be what's perfectly best for us. I believe it is only through our ability to reject God that we learn what a blessing it is to accept God. I feel that's the key to why God gave us free will. Not so that he could enjoy the benefit of our allegiance, but rather that we could enjoy the benefit of our allegiance. Were we created robots, we would never understand it.
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