If god is also omniscient , then God is responsible for the fall . If he ' s allknowing , he knew how creating humanity would work out , fall included , well before he did so . Being allpowerful means he could have avoided it should have have wanted . Omniscience and omnipotence together means that nothing can occur without his awareness or ability to affect it nothing can possibly happen without his approval . God knows what the world is like with and without free will in the garden . He chose the prior . I ' m not all knowing , so I cannot possibly look over all of human history in the past and future to know if it truly is better for us to have not had free will . Why would god settle for an inferior covenant ? He didn ' t . That ' s why he sent Jesus Christ . Well we only really need to get back to slavery for me to mention a moral stance I disagree with , but we also have numerous examples of sanctioned or ordered murder , pillage , and rape , plenty of people killed by God ' s hand or agents , mind control in the form of hardening hearts , avoiding the simple paths so god can show off , enormous punishments for small slights call a prophet baldy ? Death by bear , and a gross avoidance of personal responsibility on the part of god that is perhaps best exemplified by the tales of Job and Noah in the former he says don ' t question me instead of fessing up to the wager with Satan , while in the latter he wipes out the grand majority of life on the planet because it didn ' t turn out the way he wanted despite being omnipotent and omniscient . The former is just reprehensible , while the latter shows both horrible management skills and either inexcusable neglect or outright sadism . So because you can ' t think that there could be an explanation for those , you assume God does not exist ? We should find if Christianity is true or not . If it is true , then there may well be an explanation that we don ' t understand . I could go through every event in the OT with you , but that would take forever . We must trust in God that he , in his infinite wisdom and foresight , knows what is right . the primary message of the NT , the Gospels themselves , are centered around an act of scapegoating . This is a view invented by Anselm . It is not taught by the Orthodox Church , and was not taught at all in the first millennium of Christianity . Instead , Christ dies to conquer sin , death , and the devil . That ' s why he rose again . Because he won . This has taken away the penalty of sin death is a natural result of leaving God ' s love , so it is a penalty in the same sense that the flu is a penalty of not getting vaccinated , which is death not God ' s wrath because death is filled with God ' s life . There is now no where where God is not . Thus hell is the eternal realization of the second death where one rejects Christ into eternity and denies God ' s love . To him God ' s love is an eternal burning . If God were truly unloving , he would hold back his love to prevent the burning , allowing the unrepentant sinner to live in eternal darkness . Similarly , the whole idea of a creator sparing their creations from a punishment assigned and delivered by the creator despite being created incapable of meeting the creator ' s standards to start with , and doing the sparing selectively based on a metric that is neither fair nor just and which the majority most of the creator ' s creations will fail at anyway is not particularly moral or even benign either . See above .