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Transcript 338C
Why Did God Create Man Knowing He Would Sin?
HC: Good evening. Welcome to Open Forum.
CALLER: I am a born again believer. God, knowing all things, would He create man knowing he would die a death in which the spirit would be lost? If so, what purpose would like be here? Jesus came to give an abundant life. And I'm kind of concerned about whether God would really create something knowing the end, knowing that man is going to die.
HC: The Bible is very very clear that God knew precisely what was going to happen before He ever created the universe. There were no surprises for God. We read in Ephesians 1:4 that He predestinated us from before the foundation, or He chose us from before the foundation of the world, in Christ, to be holy and conformed to God's will, and so on. He predestinated us.
This was before He ever created the world. He already planned our salvation. He knew right along that man would rebel, that man would be under the wrath of God. Now we must remember that God is sovereign, altogether sovereign. Number two, we must remember that God did not create mankind sinful. He created mankind good, after His own image.
Mankind was created a responsible being, accountable to God for his actions. Mankind of his own volition rebelled against God and came into the terrible state that he did come into. And God in His sovereign good pleasure walked the second mile by providing for our salvation at a very dear and terrible cost to Himself, of course, because it was necessary for God to become man and endure hell for our sins in order to save us.
Now why God did this is all to His glory. The whole creation is to His glory. We read, for example, in Romans 9:22, "What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction, that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He hath afore prepared unto glory." Here God is saying that He is sovereign in these matters. If he wants to glorify Himself through His poured out wrath on the unsaved, that's His sovereign good pleasure, even as it's His sovereign good pleasure to save those whom He will.
We of course, as sinners in the misery of sin, can't understand this. We just can't fathom the love of God, we can't fathom the grace of God, we can't fathom the holiness of God. We only know that it exists.
CALLER: He is mighty.