The Bible describes God as being a person. Our father. When it says in the Bible that God gets angry and happy it sounds silly to me. A being powerful enough to create everything we see and don't see has human emotions?
Name a few human emotions.
-A mother's powerful adrenaline to defend her children when she knows they are threatened.
-Outrage that injustice has been done, which does not settle until after guilt is acknowledged and recompense has been implemented.
- Fear of danger, when there is real danger.
Emotions are very chemical. When the mind perceives a need for the body to jump into action, the toxins are released that cause us to react faster.
The perception can include things being amiss, outsiders intruding and sapping resources, deception, unfair treatment... and also love and appreciation. Gratefulness. Tolerance.
Are human emotions necessarily inferior? Or are they just experience-based, for dealing with our environments?
The premises stem out of a sense of decency and fairness. Right to property. Desire for companionship.
Since God created everything that means he created satan and sin. If He didn't create satan would that not put satan on the same level as God? Why create sin if he loves us so much? I'm fairly confident that Adam and Eve could not create such a concept without God already knowing that they would do that.
Tough question.
God created beings that had the potential to make unwise and even offensive choices.
He did not cause them to make the destructive choices. But in a sense, creating the potential for evil would have opened some possibilities.
God is said to be omniscient. That means He knew everything that would happen before he created anything. So that means He already knew who would accept His love and who would not. He love us and wants to be with us and gets sad when people do not accept his love. Then those people are sent to hell and are permanently separated from Him. He already knew that these people would end up in that place so why did he create them in the first place. That seems counter productive.
I personally do not believe that God knows everything that happens in the future. That is like playing Monopoly when you know you'll get all the hotels -- no fun in that.
As you said,
people say God is omniscient. It is a word used to describe God in general terms, so people understand who He is. It is not a delimiter of who He is.
We are accustomed to how computers generate probability schemes. They collect all the data, all the vectors and catalysts, and then spew out all the possible outcomes.
There are times when most of the probabilities lead toward the same result. That is how I see prophecy: God says, "This is what I see, this is how I see things heading, and if you don't do -x-, then -y- will happen."
In situations like horsemen of the apocalypse, I see that as an incredible ability to project down the road. Look at what supercomputers can do right now -- they are mere small machines, and we are using them to guesstimate when global warming will cause the world to end, and how soon overpopulation will wipe out the human race.
God can do that.
